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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country. Membership is free for all MIT students who have taken an appropriate class ... ! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a ... in half before putting it on your lap; when drinking a glass of wine

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to ... about how much life there is left after college for learning, too. And

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  bathtub" -- how cool is internet in the bathtub? You can be playing in a ... Well, this is my last day in Ahia (try saying it with me -- "Uh ... for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me ... turns out, CMI airport in Champaign, Illinois, is not very big, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  live on campus or in Cambridge – and it is very likely you are a male ... scooter battery is currently being held in place by a roll of duct tape ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  progress in the gym is going to slip away. But I am most definitely in a ... . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  figures in my life, like former teachers who write blogs about how covid is ... internships i'm considering next summer is a 4-person company where the ceo ... paragraph, and ultimately that is not a tradeoff i'm willing to make i don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  a broader audience. Holland is beautiful! I rented an AirBnB in the ... spend a few days holed up in that AirBnB and didn't get out quite as much ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  were a fish, he'd have provided much of the water in which I swim. When ... showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... receipts in Apple stores. Not so much as a single pixel passed through the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... teams are noticing how beautiful Corn Dog is, too. DBF really fosters a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue, surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... EVERYTHING IS RAINBOW AND SHINY Meanwhile in18.02 (Multivariable Calculus

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... . CES is the Mecca of the technology world. It’s a trade show - not open ... Fortune 100. It’s kind of a Big Deal. CES is geek paradise, and Plume Labs

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... Palm Beach, and tomorrow is meeting #3 in South Miami at 11am. A full ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry ... you can't live in an FSILG until you're a sophomore. Unfortunately, in ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... is crazy. being honest with yourself, too. i’d say i’m a very self ... want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... ! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013