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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  supposedly left before ours. So after walking in the woods looking for the ... on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is ... cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... -E-Cheese: addictively entertaining in the most kindergartenish, brain-frazzling sense of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and ... for if you fit in well with the culture there. Talk to different ... programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... suggest we walk in a direction neither of us know. Alan knows downtown ... different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  crying in bed, the exercise journal I kept and meals I skipped for the sake ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer. For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of ... fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed below). Side Note: Allan is not in the first few (because we don't like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Laverde's Market, nestled in the MIT student center ... sullen students recognize each other in line at La Verde's. Tiredly, the ... weird transition out of high school, actually. In my high school, among

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting ... Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world ... love mugs!! One mug for me, one for my mom, one for my mom's best friend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... Thermodynamics -- Last year, my UROP advisor, Jefferson W. Tester, taught this for ... , the professors themselves, or both. The office hours for 10.302 are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my ... . There wasn't much to see in Bedford, except for this old train and a 10 ... been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  very effective thing for him to say. Because in my state of shock, it ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  LGO (Leaders for Global Operations) Program at MIT, in which students ... bed yet. Baker desk! This is, in my opinion, the best job for students ... my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  inside jokes[/annotation] for the wing along the way, and it was, all-in ... [annotation note="a 'social member' is someone who hangs out in a living ... titled "THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER." The story

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the ... , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... trusted my intuition and hoped for the best. I made some wrong turns that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016