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• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of milk down the drain because it was past the "Sell By" date listed on the side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  informed by cheesy holiday movies and distant memories of childhood days ... lot to me. I just hope that by the end of our four years here, or by ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  sit side-by-side and tell stories of decade-long fermentation, bacterial ... and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  scale, the witch hunt was the “largest mass killing of human beings by ... (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale ... with minor damage, or out-of-print. But these factors are no deterrents

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  weather here is by far, the most random shuffle of unpredictable behavior I ... I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people ... sponsored by Technique, MIT's yearbook and photography club. Students, faculty

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT like this: "You can tell what we care about by the way we introduce ... of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of ... proportion of my end-of-year identity crisis has been prompted by my classes. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  building which, by the way, was awesome. It just had all the personality of a ... forever and was on clearance for only $1), The Riddle-Master of Hed by ... always obliges by making ridiculous faces whenever I snap photos of him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  the side of the house, planned out by current residents and an architect ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  contributors caption their photos. A lot of people were frustrated by this ... a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  Hello, MIT Class of 2015! Here are some things that admitted students ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... register for CPW by March 24 or when your travel plans are solidified

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila '10 to disseminate low cost water testing devices that were developed by ... developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  we do not have a dining hall. By the end of this entry you won't want a ... My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... hobbies, what you do for fun outside of class, what your advisor should know ... culture never really became a significant part of my identity. So am I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... whispers of "I miss you" as electricity carried our voices hundreds of miles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Secret to Divine Love by A. Helwa The City of Brass by S.A Chakraborthy ... drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking ... -600). There’s nothing like the anonymity of a large lecture hall Banana Lounge

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021