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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  two separate beds, but I don't know what the norm is, or if there is a ... Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I'm

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  start?” I’ve been through it. It doesn’t have to be a hair pulling mess ... unattainable when I’m in class. There are even some times where you don’t have ... Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to ... much time crocheting? I'm surely not crocheting out of boredom. I'm also not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint ... was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe ... finally put it together. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia like “Paula Abdul actually isn't African American” or “McDonald's in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce ... case, I slammed my finger in a door junior year... I actually don't think ... major? It can be, but it doesn't have to be. If two majors have quite a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... didn't assign credit when he described results from astronomy research. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach ... . Since a) relationships are all about compromise, b) we don't have a great ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  a while but haven't commented because I never really had a question ... wasn't outright rejected, I'd be deferred, because I'm only outstanding ... ? Did you end up eating it? Anyway, I'm really excited to maybe be a part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... ; those words probably don’t make much sense to you, so here’s a short ... -knowledge proofs for authentication then hackers can’t steal your login info from a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  commitment wasn't worth it. So it's a personal choice. Let's take a look at the ... spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and ... playing a sport (or two) here and what type of adjustments being a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  selection buttons that don’t always light up, and they all make a confusing ... tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  , I'm a beginner. ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite scientist.   Photo Credit: Robert Mesa   I haven't learned

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... page paper was due and said "Hi, I'm starting a 30 page paper on Pakistan ... analytically. And I like being a nerd. I can say things like "I'm an electron, I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  suggest that i’m immune to jealousy now. there’s a popular model of the ... still be a negative one. i don’t know if this is true for everyone or just ... point it’s not something i worry about anymore. i know that i’m a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  wasn't worth being outside. A friend and I went kayaking (normally one of ... college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  my schedule was a bit tricky is that I'm applying to the Course 2 ... apostrophe!"  You're also thinking, "what does a second-year know about being a ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  whatever crazy topic you want. I'm really unoriginal and don't have many ... Rick actually made those pants himself. It was part of a project for 21M ... common area and a kitchen and 3-6 rooms, including one double (I'm pretty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  , THIS IS NOT A GOOD TAKE ANYMORE SINCE HE KINDA SUCKS!!!! Specifically, I'm ... Kanye West, a 42-year-old man with an estimated net worth of $240M to $1B ... looking at the 3-D printing tag in MIT News, we see that 3D-printing isn't a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019