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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... bill is a monthly flat rate, we have the luxury of leaving the fans on ... parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  join me on an all-too-familiar excursion. :-) (a closer look at the ... cluster that's deliciously quiet and empty at this time of night. :-) Okay, as we leave, we enter a hallway... at the end of which lies a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  we are. Someone on Reddit made an interesting observation that a lot of ... , but do you go regarding each new person you meet with some degree of ... Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  Match (climax of the album), in which Chavo took on Eddie, and the loser got their head of long hair shaved by the victor. Eddie passed away on ... found this album freshman year of MIT and listened to it on loop during

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  ) are not frozen in time, they're a foundation upon which new members of ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my first entries, but I assume that I've picked up new readers since July '05

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="400"] dig yer own grave on the front page of ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  semester of my junior year, the Class of 2024 got to go on the freshman ... . This sort of behemoth of an aquarium, simply doesn't exist at the New ... 't breathe. -- On the way to Monterey, I made this playlist of songs that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  the Makey Makey on stage in front of hundreds of kids during Super ... ; Within the past year, I've met so many new friends.   A lot of ups ... making any of that happen because it was something that future me would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... back on this day, I feel a lot of tenderness for the girl I was. I wish I ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I usually prefer ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all ... , to the strangers I made dinner with after a final, on a floor of East ... done a good job of training new people, and then letting them go. But, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  , but for the rest of us, entering a new environment can be kind of a ... kinds of impressions I would make on people, and whether they would hate ... don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  Class of 2017. Check the blogs this week for a new post dedicated to these ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  of the new ones. You might be too young to remember this (oh God), but ... stuff, but I'm not a huge fan of mayonnaise so I figured I could ... random songs with the names of Pokémon.  Right before

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer ... stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, "whoa, air ... shock, even for someone from New Jersey, which is pretty humid as well. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  thread to write new formulas and solve the puzzle from a variety of ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they ... your plans to stay on the waitlist rather than return the postcard

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  ring typically has 5 components: the skylines on the sides of the ring, the map on the underside, the bezel (the front or top of the ring), the ... mural as an attack on MIT culture. (You can read some of the Tech

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... final version of the magazine we worked on this semester! It took several ... ), where I ate delicious food and worked on mastering the basics of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  becoming a better person. i've also spent a lot of time feeling on the ... funny, not enough so that the rest of the table can't laugh and move on. I ... find ideas for new ones, though. It's hard to find pictures of hair that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021