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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  as much apple juice as I want, as often as I want, in whatever size glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own Apple Juice Acquisition, I can! Apple Juice Liberation is upon us! Okay

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  'll talk more about this in a future entry, and hopefully I can even profile ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I ... 't even think about how much TechCash I had on my MIT Card, but it's a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  , in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... Library on East Houston Street near Avenue D. "I always wondered why she ... daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  -looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and ... “dearie” and how can they know I’m a “miss”? … I take an advanced math ... festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent ... episode in which I spotted a motorcycle rearview mirror lying by a parking ... during orientation, I staunchly refused to buy any edible matter, to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  , including a random lab tech in a white coat wandering down just as I was ... the poor upload quality, you probably can't read that on the doors in ... EC residents. We have tried to bury it in toilet paper on East Campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  place to explore! So you can discover your interests!” But I have grown to realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer ... (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  fun, and whenever someone in the group likes a song a lot they can just ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  that is since I can't think of any single majors in math that I know. A ... leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the ... and turkey -- and if we had any vegetarians, I'm sure they'd buy tofu

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and ... dorm.  For example, as a prefrosh, I found that I really fit in at East ... in a not-so-random fashion. How much time should I spend with my host

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  part of the line was confined to "Hmm, I wonder how many people are in ... memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty ... day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Materials My first official Mechanical Engineering class. How can I hate and ... How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT ... present. I hate physics, so of course my family buys me a book about physics

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i ... post. this is just me. i can try to say that i’m writing in remembrance ... laptop. i can’t remember if i thanked him. the Monday after he died, i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  tables and charts in excel etc. In fact, to avoid being overwhelmed I ... . Tally up how much you make in a month, subtract out anything you HAVE to ... kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009