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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  's going to walk in, kick open your stall door, plop down on your lap and ... up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give ... guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer—how ... on my current streak; that is to say, for each of the past 1000 days

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to the site, the online voters will "make the final choice, which will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog ... around 7:30, RingComm stood up and it was time to get the ball rolling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  ", this class focuses on how materials behave when you load them to failure ... able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials ... guy to get to listen to my professors talk about how it all works and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I ... though we would love it if you did!), feel free to watch it on 2x speed for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... nation I'd always loved was finally getting to know and love their LGBTQ

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  Chad Waxman, dare to take on the physical challenge and test your knowledge - everything from "Name the top 3 reasons a condom breaks" to "How ... need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him ... my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the ... to admit to how many episodes of MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen I watched in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  have mixed feelings on how to talk about the Harry Potter series now. I ... inspired to read fantasy, or are working on your own hot takes on Harry ... scientists’ expedition. I read this: on the plane ride to Cambridge. It’s 150

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  going at your own pace, and that it's okay to slow down when the burden ... . I get to aim at one simple thing, the bulls-eye, and get to ignore ... the road when we're not hosed. I'm not sure how to end this blog post

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  getting maybe one card a month? How does that change anything? Yes, this ... vans, waking up earlier than they probably would have liked to on a ... finish is good enough to qualify for Nationals in Iowa, so the team gets

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  ). We're now taking bets on how long it takes his MIT classmates to crack ... box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... tapping into what he already knew about humans, like how to make them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... really expect to happen. So, I was sitting at work on Friday afternoon ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the ... arrests but that none of us knew how to revive a dead ambulance. So we ... amount of lotion seems to fix. After signing off on a few papers, I became

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  frisbee, you'll have an opportunity to exercise your body and mind at MIT ... their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don't wish to participate in varsity athletics, there are also more than 30
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... spooky spider collecting election mail. I wanted to share the spider on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from ... launch! Getting 17 people on the same page is not an easy feat, which

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025