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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Zelda. You know, from the Nintendo games. Bryan just did an entry on things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... haircut actually looked great to me. Ironically in my senior year I played

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and ... didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  decision deadlines for many colleges, including MIT, are fast approaching, so college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern California for Christmas, enjoying balmy daytime weather and good home cooking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  elephants are coming, so they're waiting. Look, it's an ELEPHANT! Los ... answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  an MIT grad in the 80's (and he's an awesome doctor!). Perhaps contact ... , and was an undergraduate TA for the introductory biology lab. She was ... threshhold for pain. I, for instance, had (1) against me -- I came in with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  regrade requests and responses like? I took two classes in Fall 2019 for ... in the answer key. Thanks for your consideration. Response: Hi, sorry ... straightforward. In most of these cases, I was asking for my response to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... stay flexible and look for places that would be reasonable for between ... frustrating. We spent hours on Zillow looking for places and contacting agents

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  judged for quoting HMS Pinafore in this person's presence? Would this be a ... post in one piece. I'm sitting here in my room playing ze frank's "An ... Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  front of you? is this an identity test?]: Um, I live in ... broke the ice. We both felt very silly for meeting in Canary Wharf. I ... talk about myself in a two-way conversation than in an awkward one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... allowed to use the ants living in East Campus. The worms looked really cool when I put them in the chocolate just for photos (warning for worm

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  aware, the racial tensions in America are currently at an all-time high ... had to ask for the school to not put me in the lowest classes. Their ... in the eyes. My dad didn’t blink. He just looked at him. The man

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure ... cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green ... a bone for the first time, during the first pass of an Ultimate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to ... Tech for the past two years and know that he is not only an enthusiastic ... , and I like to think that I speak Japanese (I took it for 3 years in high

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  those well-known campus-wide facts that everyone looks forward to but isn’t really something that’s mentioned as an MIT selling point. Like, “come to the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For ... session for MURJ, the research journal I'm co-editor-in-chief of GM

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  plus. it's an extremely nice room and i'm very glad that i live in it ... picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  .  For ten minutes, in ten second intervals.  It was actually quite fun ... alum! Here is the (in?)famous rfong, looking very nonplussed by these ... . (I'm sure there's a metaphor in there somewhere about being an MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  and put down this stroke for all that you will do! But I have noticed in ... work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for ... reward them for being useful. In all of these cases, we are brought down by

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  . Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for ... Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow That count resounded in ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005