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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class ... on and on about stories of the origin of many of the most famous hacks ... games and animals for the kids to play with outside. Our Graduate Resident

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  this out and move on. Last IAP I spent almost all of the month working on ... to be on campus, but not have any formalized activities taking up all of IAP. I was going to rest and recuperate so that I could go into the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  the bus and have to wait another twenty minutes on the sidewalk. Yeah, I ... up on work. You'd be surprised how much time during the day I used to ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  of Simmons, so he’s constantly on the run. The first time I tried to ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  at least pretending to enjoy) our mid-October picnic on the beach ... away on retreats, all of us non-Greek-life students (hence the title ... meant I went home on Saturday night and borrowed the car. Meet Lucy, my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... to my baby. Usually, by 5 pm, there's a loaf on the table and that ... bother to lie to myself that I'll get ahead on work; I just bask in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... thus stimulate the economy on the island. So my tasks now are to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  escalate. The journey to migrate this crate did culminate, to where it did ... Outfinite. Then it will become windier, and you'll push the cart faster to compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... ; armadillo - A small set of drawers common to a select few dorms. beaver - The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  forward to, almost from the moment they first slip the ring on their finger ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... to teach about fifteen kids (between the ages of 8-12) about Italy! We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be ... kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of ... hanger into the socket and expecting my robot to come to life. Professor

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way ... to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... proceeded to listen to them. A lot. I'm glad I did, because it's one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  -100 and it was really just an incredible moment to see our school on the big ... of Black Panther 2. Black Panther 2 had been on LSC's radar since the beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay ... to philosophy and consciousness.   The picture on the right is actually a painting of Escher's that's on the door to the room in Zeta Psi

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials ... expect to get blogger double teamed with all the cool stuff that goes on ... Since everyone's doing it, I don't want to miss out on telling you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  people on floor 7C. My host was the APR's president, so I got to meet a lot ... to hell" with an arrow pointing to MIT, but I'd have to get on the road ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  sat there, alone on the bathroom floor, thinking, I do this to myself ... friends who have graduated, they seemed to all mention a common theme: the ... : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022