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• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles River and the bay glittered like uncut gems in the light. It took me but a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... realized that he still had 26 items left. In case you think this would be an easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in ... something that could buy X amount of Y. I told her I always jokingly see money in units of XBox 360s (a trip to Istanbul? that's like, 9 XBox 360s

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  : "WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" At the lowest point on land in North America, Lake ... Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than ... , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  (one of?) the last walled city in North America. The place looks very ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  without being in Russia--it's north of Vladivostok (but south of Paris ... humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

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

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a dining hall three times in the past two years, instead favoring to use the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... think Being John Malkovich was already in my mind. Two days ago, my old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  glimpse of artists in action on one of my first days wandering around the ... . Only a day at one of the coolest institutions in the world, with your ... buy you a burrito.’ Ok. Hmmm. So maybe Chris has it right after all

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals ... .” Everyone on campus should buy some flowers for their friends while supporting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 's dad insisted on buying me a cute blue bike with a pink stripe yesterday ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  the MIT News Office story: Alia Whitney-Johnson, Leicester [North Carolina], will graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... forward in leaps and bounds. Then we considered the elephant. He is wise

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  goods in really small amounts. People buy oil buy the cupful, or ... -use seasoning packs, or shampoo sachets, or sugar, or detergent. Buying in bulk is ... to buy goods in bulk takes a different mindset, especially when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Music and Theater Arts "The Sarod and the Raga in North Indian Tradition ... QUOTE: (talking about her daughter when she lived in McCormick as a ... . When my daughter was living in McCormick, I asked her one day what she

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  WOW CPW IS HAPPENING IN TWO DAYS!!! APPARENTLY IT IS ALSO SOMETIMES ... . Second, be on the lookout in your email for more specific information later today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up ... minutes long, and I won’t take offense if you skip around or watch it in ... :53 UROPs 32:31 East Campus 34:07 Walker Memorial 35:03 North Court and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020