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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  promise. So I decided I wanted a pet fish, ergo my trip to PetCo. I don't ... get a prize. I'll think of something creative. Don't worry. Fish are ... closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  multimeter in my backpack. Why wouldn't you have a multimeter in your backpack ... enough to contribute a mural of my own, and then it doesn’t happen and I ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  Month), because even if you don’t finish a novel, you still were pushed to ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... housemasters' dogs (confession: I'm not entirely sure whether the dogs have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  the tests' five-point scale. His take-away: Don't be a grade ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... places like this are just a half-hour T ride away. The world is a big place; it'd be a shame if I didn't explore as much of it as I can.

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... professors whose work looked interesting, including my resume and a short cover

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  depressive symptoms haven't come up for months now, I said. I'm genuinely ... cram. "Work isn't like that. I don't know when I can take a break, or ... time. But in the grand scheme of things, maybe it wasn't a lot of time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel AWESOME to be here, and sometimes I'm just plain confused about what to do ... Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  conference on sustainable energy with NREL, and I'm an undergrad so I didn't ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball ... fats, the carbohydrates (A) and amino acids (B) react to form some crazy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  into a snowbank while taking pictures under the yellow cast of the street lights. Simply put, we had cabin fever. I'm a California girl who hadn't ... quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  growth. I’m not going to give it all away, you should get ahold of a ... .064J/21A.339J (Documenting Science Through Video and New Media).   ... how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn't ... together three times a week. At first, I wasn't that enthused with the idea – I hadn't tried a social Zoom workout before and was really unsure

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  every night with a mid-afternoon nap to boot, but sometimes, I don’t ... . Tonight I have a choice. I mean, school hasn’t even started yet so I have no ... to be a senior. Before I close my eyes and finally go to sleep, I can’t

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  necessary; it all comes down to your reasoning, which is I'm happy to say is a ... international mail always seems a bit unreliable, and I ain't heard anything back ... enrollment form a few weeks ago, and I haven't gotten anything back yet, so I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  I'm a chronic overpacker, spending a good 30 seconds pondering if I ... A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... this year, Kano suggested we have a blogger retreat this semester. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the food, so I didn’t eat much. When I got home, they measured me, thinking I might have grown at camp. I hadn’t grown -- but I was starving. I ate

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021