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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... custom, and we feasted all the day on carbs, as is our custom. In the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  know that DUSP is home to the largest urban planning faculty in the ... schools’ departments) I went to this event (and most of the other ones in ... to arts events in the greater Boston area, including performances

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  make games (yes, they exist). Most of the schools I applied to were in ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... classes. You meet such interesting people who have gone to the most remote

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn ... . In the time it took me to finish this post my friends surprised me with ... resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this ... so much joy to my day. Most days I ended up reaching out to people and ... . He is an alum of the fellowship and is also Ethiopian. I reached out to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... there, I took this chance to briefly lock the frosh up in one of the ... lunch, only to find half the lunch bags absolutely covered in oil from the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  (Independent Activities Period--in essence, MIT gives us the month of January to ... holler to the next room away. Going out to do things or hang out is ... . It's just as easy to take a bit of effort and work late nights in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  ) -- The marching band is supposedly going to kick off the festival, although ... 100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2 ... hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but ... unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have ... chemistry major, figured that if MIT is opening the doors to its classes, why

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  . MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... with the field work we did in New Orleans this past week. New Orleans is ... in New Orleans, from buses to streetcars to the ferry. We biked around

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... battle scenes in Lord of the Rings allow pika to run a meal plan 7 days a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a ... much. Suppress the desire to verbally devour the uncle who spouts

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  , I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean ... -JPL research.  The program that Herbert took part in is one of the Caltech

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  norm. Over in Matt's blog, there was a question about why MIT is on the ... ugly campus. And, in general, I tend to agree, in the sense that the campus is mostly the opposite of pretty. But it is an ugliness that I like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  tirelessly to craft the most agile bots, by covering their wheels with ... 're in Freshman Leadership Program you're not going to swim back from the ... setting is a pretty amazing thing to have once the explosion that is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  damn hilarious. like, who am I??? Even in the months leading up to the ... being able to travel to Japan and stay with a host family in the summer of ... experience that I dedicated myself to studying Japanese in the years that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... bit late to the OfflineTV train. OfflineTV is a group of content ... watching their content has reminded me of why the game is so popular in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather ... " are most likely in the wrong form. The thing that you needed to realize ... Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... nd largest contributor to Alzheimer's Disease research in the US. With ... The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011