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• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life ... I made a commitment with one of my friends--each week, we meet for an hour and do nothing but read. Usually we end up staying for much longer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some ... and also raising money for the Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund.  The Fund ... side 2015 calendar today at wotes.mit.edu!!! And pick up/pay for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  at the Z center for morning lifting. 7:53 AM The view as soon as you ... start catching up on my HASS reading for Neuroscience and Society. 11 ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... the attention, begged for pastries, and generally took advantage of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... flips over to fold into a desk that would be way too big for any actual ... point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  my First Year. My First Year Out Of School. I worked part-time for Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that ... lost password link. There is a similar link for forgotten usernames. If ... decision, so make sure you are prepared for the fierce wind of knowledge. 

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the ... (ooh, scary). Our group was very all-inclusive. Anyway, for anyone who ... able to take a break this weekend to watch scary movies or dress up for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... 's an argument for applying. What kinds of fellowships are out there ... audiences. For astronomy graduate students, this website has a pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... Times was not at all what I expected, but everything I could've hoped for ... brief stint in Canada for my older sister's wedding. Bonnie (my parents

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  go and signed up for the trip. It was an annual trip that the Boston ... finished up with skating for a bit, a bunch of us gathered wood and started a ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name ... Weather Channel's new ratings-driven non-scientific naming system for winter ... , cold, and snotcicles.  Actually, it's been winter for a few months, but

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004. Outside his door hangs a red sign with black letters: 'Having Abandoned My Search For Truth…I Am Now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are ... acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) by, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... loudly and obnoxiously for two hours, exchanged some hugs, then went outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first ...  peeps: andddd That's about it for now - more updates after this weekend!

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  ://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GTL) -- and no, not gaming, table tennis, and library. But if you asked me for a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a ... was perhaps, then, the best kind of pressure that made me run for my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  workshop in Building N51 and saw for myself everything that they do. Check ... for some hot weather, special times with family, a road trip with friends, and a conference for Camp Kesem. More updates on the flip side of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012