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• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I ... considering how little time I devote to weeb pursuits while at MIT is pretty damn hilarious. like, who am I??? Even in the months leading up to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... dinner included. Tonight we are in Destiny kitchen.   The MacBook is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in ... in-dorm storage, while my friends at other schools have to pack up ... sitting in the storage room, waiting for me to find in the fall. I gave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told ... camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... oldest mural in East Campus, and according to legend, it was originally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  skyline, and thus love my room. When there’s nice weather out, I get to see ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what happened to me: overuse injuries in my knees and hips that never got any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50% participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... comes into play -- if you don't adjust for inflation, these amounts sum to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... details of my life. I'll tell you things I want you to know in my blog, but ... you see it (unless you get accepted to MIT and we become friends). Left

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... arbitrary wing in Next. You’re allotted one week to wander around and figure ... concerned about when I’d actually be able to get to sleep. To be clear, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... with their teeth to construct dams in the river. They have been known to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I'm special. Perhaps this year I'll get crazy and occasionally sit at that

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it ... last.  In fact, I’m really just amazed that we were all awake to witness ... now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  my literary career. Just in time to introduce you to Random Hall ... decorated like a homeless guy's scrapbook. In addition to the gems below ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do ... ". In hindsight, it's tempting to be black-and-white, and say that you ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... should take very long (oops, gave it away). Now all that's left is to get ... over to the Stata Center to retrieve it (the ambulance lives in the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008