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• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... involved. We upperclassmen forget sometimes that it's not crystal-clear to ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... this semester has gone to recovering my study skills... I fully empathize

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle, analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... —if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent ... -generated writing doesn’t bother me, and if somebody were to create a story generated

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... have to toss a ball around or [annotation note="I actually have a note ... -y meetings, and I've introduced different friend groups to each other and had

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... summaries, but I'll leave a link to an article about each piece. I'll also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... admitted to intrusive thoughts about sipping some media! Before I say ... these, and you should definitely not take this as an endorsement to chug

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... intro circuitry class, where we are given schematics and sent out to ... E. This is why I choose it, every day I come to class and try to pay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... to pieces, and ironically, this was the year when more people than he knew existed scrambled to put him back together again.” - Pride

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  blogging more and yet don't want to spend my free time blogging more. like, i ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about orientation and things you need to do before that and stuff. and then you come

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  twenty years old. Wow. So weathered, so wise.  I’m heading back to Boston ... cacti with arms, pronounced ‘sah-WAH-row.’ Thanks for coming to my desert ... for new experiences, which seemed to be cropping up everywhere on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  ? Whenever I talk to other MIT students, there's so much reminiscing. Always ... overwrite old memories with fresh ones. I wish I didn't have to revere things that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020