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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  ’ve been spoiled by the vast array of options available to me in California ... California, I looked upon the bare bones furniture in my half of the room, now ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one ... Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... estimate, but honestly, I'm sort of over the free t-shirt craze. This is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... of self expression. East Campus and Random Hall are the only mural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... Eugene, reminds me of a Dance Troupe concert (Dance Troupe, by the way, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... place) The Journey to Heathrow, Fortress of the Skies The few days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  SIMFEST!: Battle of the Fakes Forget skill, your goal is to make it look ... As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  One of the stereotypes of sci/tech/engineering schools like MIT is ... they crack under the pressure of my enormous good looks. The pimples on ... Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015