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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... 'm officially LOCATABLE in the NASA Ames database! This is my email address that I ... some pictures :( I dunno, is it? In other news, it's totally not cool to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat ... think of it as a wearable yearbook. The 2014 ring is much the same way ... : On the bezel, the moon is in the exact same phase as it will be on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge, crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... opportunity I have to pitch an idea to an organization is an opportunity for me ... asked Chat-GPT to name it for me. The inspiration for Somatic was that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... selection in Macgregor [annotation note="RIP to the other room assignment ... need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  love. The Class Council is giving away tickets to a lot of concerts in ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... to buy college things with my dad, possibly the trip when I forgot what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . The reality is that for most of us who are majoring in an engineering ... This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week. Maybe you still have seventeen lectures to review and the exam is tomorrow

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... deferred in December, I knew this had to be the case. I had given up any hope ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  ’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I worry sometimes that the escapism is bad for me. That I spend so much time ... into my audiobooks. I don’t know if this is the best way to go about

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the ... problems in the first place. That growing up is this thing that’s inherently ... the carpet to stare at the dome, let me roll around in the grass and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  all or even most humanities scholarship is fluff; it’s just easy to be ... . None of this is to say that I don’t adore beauty the same way anybody ... have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  is about as easy to follow as the derivation of the Schrodinger ... want to make the point that the entire ordeal in real-time was treated ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  . Anyway, the main point is that (1) thinking too much about the HASS ... is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... fruitless cycle of (1) going to Borders, (2) intending to buy the novel, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  had no space left. Appendix A turned out to be pretty much the most ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the gender

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  , the past two years were very effective in erasing most of it. to some ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The pretzel, invented during the 8th century AD, is shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... and had to head off. The rest of the band, much more bandcore than I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... important about the things you do? Which activities mean the most to you? What

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  very good story.) WMBR is the campus radio station: it began in the ... gave us time to experiment in our first season without too much exposure ... elsewhere fly in for the weekend to teach (I'm looking at you, James B

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014