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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... to real life. A GRT is MIT's version of an RA -- I guess at most ... , often necessitating a 10-minute walk in the cold and wind to warmth each

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14.121 today, the professor said, "i'm sorry, i know consumer theory is the most ... really like it--i'm content to be left alone most of the time, and i get to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  celebrated July 4th in the most American way we knew how - going to the beach ... . Pictured above is the route I took to work: the Harvard bridge, past building ... building. Which is pretty much what I was hoping to get out of this UROP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  want to do in the future yet (although props to you if you do, you’ve got ... trying to show off everything under the dome (and believe me, there is a ... therefore interest in the topic so it felt like listening to a lecture in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  36 units, tuition is the same no matter what; in general, most students ... much of the lab as I can in one sitting. Since I haven't been in a coding ... from an image without disturbing the actual content, leading to much

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... in this post, this is the only one I had planned out beforehand ... to fill the remaining space instead. My favorite one is the alien

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  disappointed to find out that the whole ascent is basically covered in graffiti ... foods is listed in kilojoules in addition to in calories. Hallo again. I ... . 2. My job. However, the computer is supposed to only be used for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  year, which is basically a day in which freshmen take the time to ... , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  ); sending in a strong application is all you can do to "influence the RSI ... say RSI notification is likely to be sent after 3/14 (the website ... no preference in the admission process to those applicants who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  ’t the official medical term, but this is pretty much what I was told ... for four to six weeks – [annotation note="In hindsight, maybe not the ... [annotation note="The big hospital in Boston"]MGH[/annotation] that evening to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to ... , once in mirror The glassy surface of the river reflects a portal to ... , to see the homes and streets lined in the oceans of Fall. Pigeons

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to ... ? The idea is that you happen to be in the same elevator as the CEO and ... Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  goodness. We got in, whoop-dee-doo. But at the core, it's so much more than ... and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver ... about an old radio that he and his friends found back in the day, turned

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  involved I was in a story, the more my heart and mind seemed to tie ... -documentaries. And I suddenly knew what had happened to the characters in my head, what ... -attack-worthy lies over the next couple of days. And this blogpost is all about the art

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  's update rate. I don't know if what I'm seeing in the Charles is also due to some periodic disturbance in the water, as I don't know much about river ... window, but my daily schedule forces me to face the elements. In the early

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... roommate received a package in the mail labeled only as “Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum.” Nary a mark of the sender's identity was uncovered, but a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  other organizational device that is acceptable to use in the 21st century). ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... up in the most succinct and accurate way possible – Warning: May

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011