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• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  think, maybe this is the week no one comes - but every week, by the end of ... In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  moral of the story is to eat your greens, kids (and by “greens”, I mean ... ="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  only be refilled by the housemaster between the hours of 7:30 AM and 4 ... 's just one more thing I just thought of yesterday: laundry. Where are the ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  "]produces some kind of audio[/annotation]. Bonus points [annotation note ... semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  taken away by a stupid, split-second collision. Little did I know that I ... naturally my whole life. Instead of walking, I was dragging, hopping, or ... the boot was off, it was months of physical therapy. Putting weight on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  bottle were (as Petey aptly puts it at the end of his emails): Sent by ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  humanize him by providing a brief sketch of his life. SBF and Caroline ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  , regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try ... pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... questions, but the conversation is good anyway. towards the end of the chat, K

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... Toronto, on a corporate laptop overnighted to my house. Because of security concerns, none of us are allowed to work on my company's actual codebase, so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  beloved member of our team, died unexpectedly yesterday.  If you ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... limited to her professional responsibilities. If you were the partner of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  finite amount of words. And love is felt differently by everyone. It is a ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess ... name of any good-looking, financially-stable male celebrity, I’ve spent a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a little bit about Next House. Next is awesome! It's full of nerds, musicians

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the ... ’ve been having about MIT: How hard are classes, really? What kinds of things

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us ... losing sleep right now." When I arrived, a group of students, adults, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing ... first taste of fall. Yeah, I will admit I am freezing my butt off. But

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my ... valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  talk about the history of computing. He was inspired by Marco Tempest ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of technology in magic). Colin ‘16 re-created the trick in the opening scene of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I ... - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  fearing "falling behind" is being constrained by the pressure of following a ... , which was already late on day two of school. “Hey, instead of doing ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011