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• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  little, not really in a dangerous way or anything, but just by being ... So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  √ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than ... assured to advance if they defeat Togo by more than two goals, and how ... conditions. For example, would it be better to hire ships to cart away toxic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... Safran Foer The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  worse. Plus, it doesn't have to be goodbye forever--we can still be ... of waiting and not knowing, and want to get back to you as quickly as ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... , satisfied. In some way, then, I’m scared of being satisfied–not in a sigma ... , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... school. As soon as I realized I would be coming to MIT I began to delve ... University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  , Technology, and Society (STS) Program. And by the way, if I had to choose a ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can ... appear to be how much of it is still scripted and staged. Despite the Tech

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... my way to the Student Center, I saw several people, and before that I ... get the cart up into the office, and I reckoned it'd be best to avoid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . No way, I said. I'm not trying to do anything extraordinary, I just ... science and ambition, for me, necessarily need to be opposed? As it turns ... , here I am. At some point, also, it occurred to me that ambition could be

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  want to see my dad, which might be difficult given the average mit ... , but they do make me feel better by virtue of being something familiar ... boils down to three categories: self-care being taken care of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  .0002. Swayed by the promise of pandemic PE/NE grading, I reluctantly decided to ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken ... credit for 6.0001, by taking an advanced standing exam, didn't go so well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  hiking and climbing are great ways to relieve the pressure. Because after ... :59 am you will invariably be glued to your laptop, frantically refreshing your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  ’ll always have someone to advise you, because let’s be real, if they just left ... biology, you can sprinkle in some more bio. If you want to be an engineer ... spontaneously decided to be MechE (course 2) and it’s worked out so far. I was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be ... you all eat them too? There are other things to be said, but my job (I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... to the ALS Association donation page. The trend has been questioned by ... video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  come out of the dryer, and being able to fall asleep so quickly will net ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... even consider that picture to be in the realm of possibilities? If not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to ... does not have to be what you actually major in -- there are no quotas for ... annoying, because it's alphabetical by school rather than what is to me the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  . When I woke up, I decided that the best way to find out what I really ... first few weeks. Most first lectures tend to be fairly dull.  Pass out ... .  And by that, I mean our instructor said: "I want you all to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  you even weighed in with clever suggested names for my soon-to-be ... , many of you went out of your way to remind us that mutual respect is the ... being WICKED SMART, you are a witty lot. I am pleased that you continue to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects ... your knowledge of the school be limited to what admissions wanted to tell ... . The goal is to try to show a bit of everything. To be fair, 12 students

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008