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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  tried to recreate this in my room, it would probably have too much avocado ... . Bryan, what are you doing today? I'm going to GRAD SCHOOL! I surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full ... temporary rooms: Not very inviting, is it? So we set right to work. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  clownazoo tetazoans in the wild

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living ... time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... Row SSS- Super Special Seat (To be explained later, there is only 1 on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited ... than to learn about the world through science, and travel into the realms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... /MIT. One post that hit close to home was titled "Did anyone here not enjoy CPW but still love MIT once they were actually a student?" A prefrosh

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  you need to turn in work, and chem majors...do things like that to ... to move out. For Next House, residents that weren't graduating had to ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons ... countdowns. 4. I've been meaning to write a post like this since the big TV ... most shows are taking holiday breaks, I've been able to catch up a bit on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of ... to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to mingling, shouting to be heard over the music.  We went from that house to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  students have so much freedom to pick their dorms, or why we don't force ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of student MIT was educating was being trained to conceive, design, operate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  ’ve almost reached the mainland. I just need to decide which one of three ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020