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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... fell in love with it.  It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and in real life. "I love your car," I told her, "I'm very jealous." "You

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check ... and the unique pieces placed in Art Galleries, where people will be able ... individually. Sinchi Warmi can choose to ask its members to contribute a portion

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  eight. You say, “Mom, can I buy that entire cake and eat it?” Of course ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... ="Pizza, you idiot, you were in Naples"]pizza[/annotation] . I was ready once

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  me at all, unlike Spiderman 2, where the value of an eigenvector can be ... inappropriate, because I saw it in Harrisburg and not at MIT. Also, my 8 ... mutant army to Alcatraz. 5. I am in love with Ian McKellen, and my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... Hurricane Harbor, the water park where we swam amidst 12 year olds in a wave

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the ... had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie ... conveniently 1 minute away from my dorm room. In fact, I can see it from my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . Unfortunately, whenever I wash my dishes in my hall's sink (which measures about 1 ... ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... listening in health class. Your advisor? Rightttt! I think most people really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?

  AeroAstro the oldest and most respected university aerospace program in the United States, and it's easy to see why. They have an Interactive Robotics lab, a Human Systems lab, a Space Propulsion lab—and the
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... channel I know.  If you like, you can post your favorite video below in the ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  down these rabbit holes where I return to the past, entryways found in ... where the past can touch me. And so I pick myself back up again and I ... can't stop the dread that pools in your stomach. And inevitably, I fall

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... -furnished kitchens, where you can cook your own food (which is cheaper than buying it ... comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  where I had no idea where I was going, but once the final review rolls ... . All I can see are challenging, wondrous things. ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  can give. Here we are, in this universe where I chose MIT. I love MIT in ... On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where ... had been totally fine. But I couldn’t help but worry. Perhaps in my mind

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  challenging. I can tell you when I came to MIT, I knew that this place was going ... where the fun starts. Imagine yourself one evening in a lounge with some ... used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013