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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... early evenings throughout the Infinite Corridor as I head to different

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  's alumni interviews. I am looking forward to discussing them on this blog, but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY, I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their deadlines and the addresses they need to be mailed to. First there was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  is MIT's flagship junior year abroad program, allowing MIT students to ... , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a ... experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... decided to give myself exactly one (1) hour to write this blog. we are starting at 4:18 PM GMT, and we will see what is to come. gmt. greenwich

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica ... members of the MIT community, from prefrosh to grad students, are helping

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything is going to hell. [caption id="attachment_51263" align ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from crazy college party to mild adult dinner party"]adult things ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart ... shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... methods that scientists use to detect exoplanets is the transit method. When

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... undergrad, I found it difficult to context-switch between so many obligations. I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... comparatively easy it is to visit new places or even new states! So far, I've been able to explore a little more of Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... local sports store. It was supposed to be a prop. I was subscribed to ... told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... loved most was making food in the kitchen, jamming to my favorite songs ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022