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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ? But she continues, and clarifies that she expects the rest of her ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heading back up Goodbye Maryland, hello Boston!

  

  Helllo! Today's the day...I'm going back to good old Boston. Any last minute questions about classes or life??? Post away...

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  platter of Swedish, German, and Austrian accents. The German and Autrian ... CL, who had sped ahead of us to the summit, and began our descent ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... semesters; it's usually 13.5 weeks of classes, plus 1 week of exams."]the end ... , it turns out that the week before the last week-and-point-five of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs ... the MIT branch of Camp Kesem was initially founded. Essentially, Camp ... fun. I'm lucky enough to be one of the CK 2010 counselors :) We

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... certain MIT students and alumni alike. Vesuvius Party The legend of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  the club I think I was able to make a very good group of friends there ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... more here. So, one of the classes that I feel I did really enjoy here

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at Central Square. It's not as good as the actual Sapporo Ramen at Porter, (or ... ultimately went to the t i p p y t o p of the mountain and made it down in one

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the ... crowded, possibly one of the best views on the Cambridge side of the river

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware, 1999 Masters of Public Administration (Home of The Fightin' Blue Hens AKA ... thoracic surgeon helping the indigenous population of the Republic of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of ... showing you two more pictures from the evening. The first is of me with my bff Sophie :) and the second is an unfortunate candid shot of me; my now

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

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club ... student groups disappeared, then what does it matter if hundreds of years of ... that, because i wanted other people to experience the joys that i did. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of the MIT community. No really, why? Because of the free stuff, obviously. Here’s a brief inventory of some of the notable mementos I’ve acquired so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  up being pretty good.) i didn't have gloves, so by the time i got back ... that in allston and almost threw up because of the smog. but!!! there ... i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  , the time you have left at home is precious. Make good use of it! Second ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012