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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  longing for nostalgia after leaving home that suddenly piqued my interest in ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... good fit for yourself can feel high-stakes. I was super nervous about

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to ... even took it to Beacon Hill in Boston for some street skiing laps during ... in our league (and many other leagues) for seniors to dress up and race

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  . Last thing you were excited about Fatima> i was in New York for a ... questionable(?) in a specific field. for example, the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize in ... work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  demons. in that moment i realized that i wanted nothing more than for my ... for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... existing this summer. And my actual self really wanted to go home for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... joke here] Term is in full swing: pset parties are everywhere, the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  best place in the universe. As for whether that’ll last, who knows? Maybe ... Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  while Kim got all checked in I flashed my ID and got my hand stamped for ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  until classes start). Thanks for an amazing CPW, and I'll see you all in ... learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at check-in, and walking down The Infinite Corridor, I saw The Admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his ... 've been at school.. I watched Say Anything for the first time and have decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  blogger name. MEng, by the way, stands for Master of Engineering."]MEng in ... having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in ... first time in years where I had the time and energy for a project like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in ... I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give ... in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries of the first ... ’ theme last year too, same as the year before. I've only been here for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... desirable, since you've been trying for hours already and can tell that you ... that there are two chem majors who live in your hall. One of them stays

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS ... Back in July, when the Institvte first accidentally leaked their plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  paper, this summer was a bust for me, but in the long run, I think it will ... for my life right now, I just lost a group stage match, but I still ... . Background (why the World Cup): I have been obsessed with the World Cup for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  . Life in college is not how she imagined it. The Frosh had many dreams for ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays ... , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014