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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  extremely docile and friendly (or according to Wikipedia, “dog-like”) and is ... jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like ... of mean to him and call him a dumb, weird dog, he likes to follow me

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get ... 2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life lessons. Some you would prefer not to learn, but in the long run, I'm sure I

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  finds the JPG file and does some photoshopping (whichever one comes first ... 're academically stylish and enter the Institute with enough panache and credits to ... to department open-houses, and declare a major in Physics. Putting the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  (crabmeats!) also does an annual Secret Santa and this year we're going to open ... 't want to do it again. I spiraled and talked to some people about some ... would do. I managed to nearly calm myself down and came to terms with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  wish good luck and tell to try not to worry TOO much because it really ... , and that's why I'd like to devote the few following sentences to help ... classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... , mmmk?), you're steeling yourself to leave all your cameras and sketchbooks and paints behind and to dive headlong into four years of SCIENCE

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the ... adjective to describe the same adjective. That's how much it blew the mind ... , and whether or not cosmologists need to justify their existence. Kip was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative ... two, summer is officially over. And with that, it is time to bid the 8 ... have students submit to that theme. And so I pieced together the a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... policeman in Guys and Dolls, I was able to disguise the anachronism of my hair ... wanted my hair cut, Then I went to MIT. And, well, I hadn't really been to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... encounter pretty much made the kid's life. Here is Uncle Q, Tim, and Ry. d ... nicest people on the planet and also incidentally happens to own the nicest

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  —nothing jumps out, not really. There’s just so much that happened, and trying to ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier ... they ought to be in museums, but were instead bartered and sold by ... poems on vintage typewriters.” Visitors only needed to say a word, and an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and ... including folks from mechanical engineering and the Glass Lab, had figured out a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to 5 on her level of eye contact), and then left. I was invited to stay ... now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of ... all picked pretty hard subjects, and I was assigned to rewrite the paper

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent grades with time to do other things besides study? And I got the impression ... you could, y'know, take a three-and-a-half hour car ride to New

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  . Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... goodbyes and sifting through my stuff, deciding what to bring (giant tea thermos) and what to leave behind (record player, books, a little cactus I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  smiled up at her as I struggled to get back on my feet and cheekily replied ... , that I wanted to wear heels and put on a fashion show. Hers was an ... feel to it, something that screamed bad bitch. Once songs were decided

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  postdoc attempts to publish anything and everything he/she can in order to ... hire people to fan them with fern leaves and feed them grapes), but the ... not think I am. Does it really sound like I'm doing that much work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005