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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a ... allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  me, not that he took my exam and then handed it in. Of course, that would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the ... singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the ... singular noun that ends in s AND the next word begins in s, you don't use an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying ... past three months. The summer after my junior year I was only in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... figure out which events we all had in common (lol yeah we went OFF)Here’s a ... as one of the three CPW Chairs of East Campus a while back (maybe in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to ... can cook up with whatever you currently have in your fridge.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Mass. Ave, swathed in darkness that small glowing arcs from streetlights ... whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  goal in life during class two weeks ago, when we were discussing the isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions column from an MIT student deeply affected by the sight of food riots in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  attention when it was introduced in 2005. It was featured on Good Morning ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie ... hours, in pool water, in salt water, in fresh water, in the ocean, where I ... crest white. Plus, there aren't any sloughed skin cells in my drinking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006