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• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  up and started to get ready. If you have never built a big project, you ... may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... was just so happy to be 'home.' On a side note: Eventually this resolves ... have two.) At a certain point it seems weirder to walk into your family

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... to my school once to give a lecture, and I could totally tell that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  your beliefs about the number 7.) I took this as a challenge to ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  buying the tickets: Me: I would like a Student ticket to 4:15's 21, please ... off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show ... mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of ... event gave Emmanuel some insight. Most importantly, it led to a key

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that ... comparing Harvard to a fabric store. I thought that was a flattering

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  HTML than I do -- bummer. After that, most of us went to bed. A certain ... (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... booklets on topics ranging from sci-fi to personal memoir. I picked up a ... paper, how they storyboard, stories of what it’s like to be a queer artist

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  Orchestra or Concert Band or other music groups. It’s a way to keep in ... thought I might want to play the piano. But I saw a lot of my parents ... time to learn a new skill. It’s okay to be a n00b at age eighteen

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year ... baseball team, which this summer is trying to earn a third trip to the state ... ," Post 283 coach Chris Weber said. "He was committed to a sport and was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a ... "Immigrant Song" to play on air. Remember, I have only touched upon a few of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  Boston Common for a bit then walked over to Downtown Crossing. After browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... . Boston has a lot of other exciting events in store to celebrate it's 375th

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  found a really good job, and an apartment in Boston, and I was ready to ... as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to ... very confident and has to act like a different person to try to get

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely ... me dwell a bit on this. This led to me commuting home one day and making a short list of things I missed about MIT and things I’m happy to be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... the parts into a working robot. It started off fast. I was unable to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  rug, to get ready for a party, to relax after a long night. For some ... "]my academics.[/annotation] Instead, I want to write a blog about... everything ... outside to take a break and get some fresh air. It was, however, raining, so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  all the way to Madrid, buying a new cellphone, and trying to remember ... a little, and then took me to Puerta del Sol. I'd been emailing with a woman who lives there about renting a room in her apartment, so I went to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  , and left to start getting ready. Thanks to a team of lovely stylists ... Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... take a different approach, hosting an entire event to celebrate Issue 11

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... , whenever I tell someone that I'm a physics major, I feel the need to somehow

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021