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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  only a few seconds for us to be greeted by one of our next tour guides ... this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... of environment. I'm really enjoying the agency that living here has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog posts:   ---- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by ... outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  quickly MIT is zipping on by.   During last year's Career Fair, I amassed a large collection of various colorful shirts and trinkets This ... because of two reasons: 1) Nearly everything from last year's Career Fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI, and WTP -- have their application ... entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for ... to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... tissue engineering UROP, explored new parts of Boston, and ate only at

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  , and the non-functional fireplaces are one of them. Ours is covered by ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... with tomato, coffee, yoghurt and granola, a cup of all kinds of fresh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I ... structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work

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

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... . As a purveyor of primarily wrapped items, they're even nice enough to ... did a pretty good production of As You Like It, but I must confess that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... ; read: the first row of each economy "section" on the airplane. so much leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... . As promised, Sam showed up wearing a suit, holding a giant box of ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  rest by finally writing about it. Glass Blowing For those of you who don ... one of my floormates at the time, who often said she felt locked in by ... sophomore year. For various reasons. One of them being I knew I messed up by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle ... of the images for a better view!][/caption]Why settle on a bicycle? Why

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... of getting in based on your test scores/GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019