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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a ... , Obama was the only one to have a public rally in Boston. I think I shall make a life's goal in which I attend a rally for each presidential

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  solution before he computes it. In a beautiful cave you let me taste the eggs ... taken out of his complacent slumber and remember what it is to be in a ... the sky in them. I dab red onto a cloud, I give it a new shape, and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  that visit, I spent a couple hours in a Borders Bookstore near Penn ... ; Bacon…I was in heaven ☺ . After our delicious lunch at A Slice of Brooklyn ... ’s Soul Food*, for lunch. Later, I met up with a couple friends in Union

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you ... strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way towards physics and while passing the student center I realized what they

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1 ... ) Watch the sunset on a boat in Boston Harbor 18) Retook a class I ... (what a time) 30) Carved my first pumpkin (how have I gone so long

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... . Before Matt, Ben, and I gave our presentation last week we went for lunch at a place called Spike's Junkyard Dogs. While there I noticed a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  . Last year I was a student in the class, this year I'm filming it. Check ... As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a ... Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  's really not a problem, which I'll explain in a second. By now, you've heard ... . ....Oh, I'm sorry. Was that all a huge lie? I really should quit with the ... terminal around me is wondering what in blazes I'm shouting about.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  was a character named Super Inge in the movie, and the morning after I ... possibly I'll fall into a canal in Hamburg and get eaten by piranhas. Just ... some awesome karma that I gathered in a different past life. Maybe as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... what I have done during IAP as an MIT student. Freshman year (IAP '04

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  converting the numbers to Roman numerals. I'll be frank: never in a bajillion ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it ... class with a sub-optimal grade, but in the end, I think I’ll remember the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  choices I’ve made in a long time. Something about being surrounded by people ... . What do I do when I have no research experiences, I’m in no clubs, and I ... conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and ... 'm on a roll. Maybe I should call it recovery, instead. This feeling of ... science at math is flimsy at best. I slept eight or nine hours a night in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people ... was on a huge social high. I was let loose in a candy shop of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... 've been quickly ushered in To a world that I confess I do not know But I ... becoming a memory. In one semester, I'll be thrown into the real world and my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of the activity in my neck of the woods. But first, a pic of my hallmate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I ... 're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  (21A.819). and i'm excited to meet the 2020s! what are you all doing ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016