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• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic ... . Darryl and Marvin '10 are working on a project that uses pedal power to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of ... location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets to have it. Items range from the boring (old clothes, magazines, etc

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  myself, and the people who admitted me to this place. So, the background ... (or 80s, memory fails me...) MIT-Japan was started as an organization to provide support to students who wanted to study or work abroad in Japan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  dedicating an entry to answering them. Please, if you have questions, feel free to ask! If I can't answer them, I'll tell you so! Drew asked: "Could ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  anyone directly saying that women were inferior to men and immediately got a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  the monthly rent was high (relative to the other options). Sublet an ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there ... declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... ) extremely popular and b) associated with a higher probability to earn above

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  you can come and go. You can do anything and you don’t have to do ... at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room. Paradoxically, I was desperate to be and not to be noticed: maybe somebody would

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... to ensure the secrecy of the design until Premiere, we even resorted to ... , it was finally time to unveil the design to the entire class! The day

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it was negative, which was incredibly rude to the kind person who gave me the thoughtful gift. I say this to show how biased I was against Kaur

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of ... Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  encourage you to watch as many as you can because they show what MIT students are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008