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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... integrity, I was glancing over at the guy sitting next to my sister, who ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  play on 5 Seconds of Summer. And yes, I did the actual math. But here ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  that a 2400 on the SAT is not necessary, you will probably try to find ... averages and ranges, not predictions. To stay calm on Test Day (the most ... the Applicants who have emailed me, and it contains all the answers to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  sphere. That was sad. =( On the plus side, I actually found the time to do ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... around 9:30, and started right in on the 18.03 pset that was due Friday. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... so normally I'd just say "hi" and continue on my merry way, but the moment she saw me, Erica '07 (on the right) exclaimed, "Sam! You should

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  : So Mom was volunteering and showing people to the second floor in the ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... woke up and made my way to the Student Center where I met up with my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  went on to win the contest. I’m not jealous. Not at all. I think this is ... . The Bee was between the first and second semester. I might have trouble ... , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... between the two was professional wrestling. The two would frequently go to ... a week on a black and white TV. He always rooted for the hero, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical ... , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on ... have to admit, this was the first time that I actually felt like an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you

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

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  told me not to stand on the slide. Apparently I was trying to tell her ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  the humanities requirement. Qualifying subjects range from music to ... 'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. The first or second day of ... about the person who put them on. Costumes tell you just by looking at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the ... next to RLE's: This one's in Interstate. It's a font based on the road ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  expert, you might be calling shenanigans due to the lack of paint on the ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It ... to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  them back every Monday. The second reason the Math Office matters is to ... , proximity to the Infinite Corridor, and - most relevant to this blog entry - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... vocalist that sounded similar to Mitski. All the merchandise was expensive

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them ... , many UROP projects sound extremely cool – who wouldn’t want to work on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  advised to bolster your courage and read on. Much more interestingly, the ... me moved back to school on Saturday, so the weekend was rather ... Waites (UGA '08 and Noel (DT) '06 in the car on our way to the pool hall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  . On December 22, I fly back home to London for the first time in a YEAR ... is recovering properly, then fly to Los Angeles on January 6th for the ... poster on my pulsar research from the summer, and do my best to charm the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I was on a plane headed back to sunny southern California. My parents and ... included). Even though winter break itself ended on the 4th of January, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015