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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  , it's because MIT hates me. II -- Yesterday, while sitting in the kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it ... then just bring/buy what you're most comfortable with. You by no means

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  usual pork belly in my Miso ramen, though). We then went to Nike to buy ... because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  those lines that are not written in English, note that Colin read them in ... English translation in brackets. https://youtu.be/dGiehdTV5Ok   Class ... , followed by “yo, 你怎么样?”, which means “yo, what’s up?” in Mandarin Chinese

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... ’s financial shakiness was magnified in my family by my parents’ youth and ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• 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