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• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  floor and not the fifth). In this case, I actually did know how to do ... got too-short ones twice in a row). Ten minutes to figure out how we ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory ... fortunate coincidence) so I was able to get the individual house presidents on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw ... to go to a museum. It was in BGC, which was maybe twelve or so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  , I finally receive it in the mail! Because I want to get these boards ... to learn how to fix them. Laying out the PCB Having learned how to use ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  getting ready to go outside and play in the snow with Sarah when the 223 ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... Club runs Winter School every IAP to teach people how to enjoy winter

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  idea how to do, and living in an apartment, and and and. coming first ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... affair with linguistics was born. The book discusses how language came to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... "] Memes. Please put them in the comments section. Things To Do While You

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... for $3 in 26-100, had invited the MIT Marching Band (MMB?) over to play ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... show how you're doing in real-time. [...] Pentland has analysed nearly 60 ... factor" . The weight assigned to each feature depends on how much it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... in the center of the field. My team is all girls, so we're going to get ... my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... . I also haven't yet figured out how to finish all my psets on time; my ... ground? How do I get everything done reasonably on time without sacrificing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week ... showed me...it might be time to pencil in some downtime. Although the ... and old, to escape the fast-paced demands of modern life. That night in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012