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• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  August 20th, I carted my things up to my room on the third floor ... intentional about reaching out to people to hang out, and that the deeper ... may change in the future. So—lots to learn and work on, for sure, but I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  out of sheer disinterest, but managed to pick my grades up on the second ... around the concepts, and I struggled to come out of the class with an A. On ... second midterm and receiving a grade that was barely passing on the curve

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  . The second time I went to BGC, I felt none of that. I was lucky enough ... particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the ... created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a ... this series of directions to follow to find the train home. START HERE

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  got to the classroom and discovered that class had been cancelled for the day and I had forgotten to check the schedule. Way to go, Mollie. So instead I came to Athena and worked on my application to UC Berkeley

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is ... Problems... Admissions Is Not One" 52 things not to do. Chris: Notes on the ... introduction to MIT's famous tunnels. Ben: Driving on the Infinite A guide to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  . On second thought, what am I going to write about? Taking exams? Anyway, later this week I am heading to the Ig Nobel Awards and to a five ... wrong tickets for the Chinatown bus, which we need to have changed mere

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  world. Jonny was also just profiled in the New York Times on the occasion ... —based on the enormously popular Twitter account, @jonnysun. Here is the ... , and love among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• 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…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... own mattress! We also have the second longest hallway in the country

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow ... portlets in the next month or two based on requests that you've made for specific types of content. Second, I've decided to display portlet content by

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn ... week, we will be selling carnations and irises to raise money for the ... a great cause! Our room! And my roommate! The hallway to our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self ... nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  [/annotation]or working on the side-projects I need to work on, I've been going out into the ... , or sit in a park and read, looking up on occasion to observe the ... people, holding on to each other for dear life, as if it were the last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... art gallery exhibit. If you’re in the area, reach out—I hope to see you ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... ghost haunting the corridors, and you make your way up to barker, the 24

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  weekend was go down to the Hatch Shell on July 4th to see the Boston Pops ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... he saw was exactly the same... but I'd be willing to bet that there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... . 5. I finished The World According to Garp on the train ride home and ... , supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  the colors around you to paint on a screen. Kids get to run around and ... brush will let users select a color on the screen and play a few-second ... 's pretty cool, since you get to be on the news-writers email list, where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005