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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy ... . QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic ... a beautiful thing. One of my favorite things that I've done over IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  itself. It was clean. I had never seen a school building like it before in ... after one fateful trip to the bathroom in which I discovered a door on ... the student's tuition in the MCVSD. I always felt a little weird about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  heard a lot about plastic being bad in the semester before. it was also a ... . we ended up playing a lot more in the rest of the semester. i would ... closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... . Similar to Spain last year, I'll be living with a host family in Japan while ... ago when I was a freshman in high school, and I decided randomly to try

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  days I mean the night before. Until 2 or 3 AM. If you're a lightweight ... have a test on Wednesday evening in 2.005 (Thermal Fluids). Uh-oh! I also ... In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly ... enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with ... ! But what exactly goes into the making of a yearbook? (...and one so fine ... what looked good on our monitor came out much too bright in the proofs

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won ... ha! Well, this entry is a bit premature. Many people are still in class. In fact I'm in an Athena cluster right now, supposed to be working

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just clarify exactly what a sorority is. According to the Panhel website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride ... ever know. :) Honestly, after I heard this a few months ago on the radio ... So we're almost an hour past May 3, which means you SHOULD have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really interested in what you have to say about this. I'm referring to the story ... discuss them. So what I'm asking you to discuss is not in regards to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  , and I have a few things to finish up here before heading home for the ... Turns out that Anthony isn't the only one who loves Amtrak. I called ... change my reservations because I found out that my bio recitation had been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident ... caulk, I fill in a couple of suspiciously mouse sized holes with the same ... any deeper, I dremel a flathead slot in along the other axis of the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  abandoned Boylston subway tunnel. What I was not expecting was a carbon copy ... /MIT station, I noticed the ground covered in a blanket of soft, powdery snow. At ... an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... took a turn in my seat and looked at all the people around me. I looked ... necessary, even if it meant psetting out in the cold. I’ll have you know, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  followed by their placement into a community. Before SCUFFY began, I spent a ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  Have you ever heard the joke: What’s green and has wheels? A logical ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013