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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... . Sororities at MIT are quite large, with about 80-100 members, so it is generally difficult to schedule events that everyone can attend. The turn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Chinatown. First stop: buy some fish. I walked up to a very nice hairdresser ... you happen to know where we can buy some fish? Lady: ? Me: Um...buy some ... Chinese character for "skate." He showed it to the fishmonger. Man: OHHH

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  as it turns out is the perfect place to build top secret atomic weapons ... only problem with these awesome devices is that they require you to cool ... ? Why is that important?" Well, it turns out that superconductors have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to ... DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year ... exhibit but I did go into the gift shop to see if I wanted to buy anything ... trying to persuade his girlfriend to let him buy ship-related souvenirs

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  the talent, the hope, and the courage that energizes this campus. It is this energy that inspires all of us to reach higher, and to go further ... students to be incredibly engaged and think that nothing is impossible. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  exact, but it just never seemed to work out.  By the time I had to choose ... because I would be able to do anything tangible with it. And before anyone ... challenge me and force me to truly, deeply learn. Before I knew it, I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time ... not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... will cook only main dishes. This is what I plan to do when I grow up. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a ... is HUGE in scope. We tackle the energy problem from what seems like ... , mechanical, physical, electrical, you name it. To illustrate this, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

   rice with forks? How are you going to scoop it into your mouth? The default of ... reusable set of utensils everywhere. The concept of layers is foreign to me ... would almost never wear jackets, and when I did, it would be to keep the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I ... current job market). It was really nice to meet so many people with ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  called the real estate agent I used to buy it and we got it listed on the ... , and said "I'd like to buy 1 car, please." I configured it on their i ... Tesla rolled autopilot out to its cars.  My desires grew deeper.  Being

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what ... falling over so the speed was reduced to 9km/h. It has been estimated that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... often choose to room with them, but this is how it worked for me ... reference, here’s some [annotation note="even the weather app is like ‘‘it’s

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  opinions and a willingness to talk about them. -- I also think it is the most ... . Each hall has its own, and the dorm is the umbrella to each of those ... this way ... , someone is probably willing to teach it to you. -- Let

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you ... to find the polymer structure of the fabric? Conveniently, MIT ... would require me to cut out a small patch) and would tell me its chemical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it

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

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It's an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is ... class, I needed to know their astrological energy so I could best prepare ... start journaling now so you get used to it), and also let us know about

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest ... skin is peeling off, and it's 30 degrees outside. It's surreal. I think ... seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007