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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  the former second-best Goldeneye player in the world if it weren't for a ... go off for three minutes before the dorm alarm kicks in and everyone ... cocoa for the road. The only two exceptions were the time that he set it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... know? Because I got to look into the lives of some chemistry graduate ... apparently not. I digress. Oh no! I looked over and saw that the meanest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Dragon and  some of the mascots for the Sochi Olympics!! How cool is that ... Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  through the film: I do not like the tripods. I do not like the way they look ... -legged creature that stood still and upright for the vast majority of its life ... , except that he vastly underrates both Galaxy Quest (one of the best movies

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  be human, and the immensity of the love that Chidi and Eleanor have for ... , Wei Wuxian roamed the world in his wanton ways, hated by millions for the chaos ... this beautiful Chinese story was mind-blowing. The love I saw for it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  myself that it didn't look too bad and fully qualified for procrastination ... This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for the adventurous type, here are additional suggestions: Meet and greet ... -- alums come back and recruit for their employers; everyone looks better

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry ... postmarked by October 27, 2006. For more information and to download the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... charity show the weekend we'd depart for Palestine. But this was an ... test one on site out of the same stones used for the dry-stone walls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  , meaning any host in 8.02 just completely ignored their prefrosh for the ... blame all of you for my failing 2.001. Go ahead, feel guilty now. Looking ... because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  (as usual), the view outside my window looked picturesque with blue ... "]fix this either,[/annotation] so I was left without the grade cutoffs for my ... she was right. So instead of doing more work, I went outside for the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  to another HackMIT event for the free food before heading off to get ... went to HackMIT, got lunch for free, looted the treasure trove of free ... in the evening. We went for Phantom of the Opera, aka MY FAVORITE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... prepared for the last three of those in just two hellish weeks of cramming

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... , literally screaming for the bread.        - The day after Christmas, we saw a ... ’t have any plans for the first half of IAP, so we’ll just keep speed

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing ... other. For example, when I look back to high school, I was surrounded ... Over the past few months, I have become obsessed with crochet

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... ." "The Stata Center was built to look as if it's perpetually falling down ... , and MIT Medical hands them out for free. So, the five of us all went up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  umbrella organization for the nine historically black fraternities and sororities. Similarly, NALFO is the umbrella organization for 23 historically ... Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  Unfortunately, having my "hell weeks" for the last two weeks has ... different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  for someone looking both mad and Russian. Along the Blue Ridge Parkway ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  ; -----------------------------------------   Well, that's mostly it right now, besides actively looking for a full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015