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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... people around me and the world in general” and “what should I be taking ... ’s what I’ve been thinking, I guess: In high school I had a few clubs I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  . Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  it out. Did you know blustery was a word? I didn't. I got an email ... characterized by strong winds. Try using that word in a sentence today, it's fun ... undergrad in a sea of four thousand. Even all of us bloggers put together are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other ... time I dropped it at a bus stop in the middle of northern Italy one night

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  Gregor. And then February: McCormick. March: But what about Next?? In fact, I ... queerest, coolest, edgiest floor: Black Hole? Or should I go a bit nerdier ... want? A 1-Room? A 5-Room? What about a 3-Room? I ultimately decided I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... my sophomore year, pushed me in a different way. Any time I would go to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at ... holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  some herbs. Hmm, what should I make for dinner? :) ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business ... . I'm sitting in my room facing the EC courtyard, tapping my feet

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  friend :) Course 8 was next in line to Course 9, so I managed to get a ... -Lab partner: And there's Sam, who I met during CPW as a prefrosh, before I ... This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  , signed up for a dozen more mailing lists than I should have and tried my ... Presidente checking out the situation in Europe. A Civil War time North ... -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  FOR CHAOS In the week before CPW, I made a list of interesting events to ... -control, but I still spent most of CPW in a mild but continuous state of panic ... to MIT for years. If I had known a few things before going into CPW

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . I've got a paper for 11.015 Riots Strikes and Conspriracies in ... , wanted to show his grandson what a real library looked like. I, still ... - here I'm in a more urban area and allowed more responsibilities. So that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling ... freshman, I have heightened attention in the early morning hours before dawn ... , I also have a tendency to “check out one episode” at 1am. These late

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  night was a luxury. The single class that I took in January, which was ... that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... haven't slept more than six hours or so in a single night since before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... . Kresge Auditorium. Hayden Library.  A quote I found in front of ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will list the ones I know with a brief description, and then I'll write a ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  put it all in a safe place with the operator. I took a picture for your ... Okay, so Bryan just started a Mystery Hunt LiveBlog, but I'm being ... the puzzles and figure out what we'll need to give them in exchange for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  musical" - someone in a pit orchestra I was conducting mentioned this "bob ... "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" - a pretty good short story I read in a Spanish ... )" "Drifloon (Pokemon)" - what a cute balloon ghost "'S' Series baton" - I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  public transportation and in bed, and one on what I do at work. on where I live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... in the morning, up a hill, past a castle, into a forest. Then I take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... find a picture of it online, but apparently I was wrong! I should have ... display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006