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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... earlier draft I had made it "message in a mobile, yeah" but I decided that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . I drifted in and out of uneasy dreams on the way home, but I think ... ... even though I should have learned it perfectly in 8.022. We also sang ... I CAN MAKE THE 6:15 TRAIN." I wasn't completely sure I could make the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn ... fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  -hopping in Europe, where ‘home’ was not the bed I slept in but the backpack ... , where they are building a fort in the courtyard, paint murals on the walls ... to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  's also a Sears in the Galleria, where Neha and I got our fridge last year ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a ... renovated shortly before I came to MIT, where sound goes to die except for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... forgot where it was entirely. Next time, I'll get a picture and blog it. I ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  you happen to know where we can buy some fish? Lady: ? Me: Um...buy some ... Chinatown. First stop: buy some fish. I walked up to a very nice hairdresser ... Street, where I bought a pair of earrings. After that, we noticed that we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s cartoon? ARTHUR: (bristling) If I were in a cartoon, I”d probably be named ... "refined"... or as refined as a name for a pet human can sound. I call him

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  learning and growing in more ways than I can even recognize today. I suspect ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  .) Clocky is especially nice combined with my loft. I can’t leave it in my bed ... ’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... . Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... hours while people tried to figure out where to buy a ring. And perhaps ... youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan ... had a distinct code. Not only that, but you can look these codes up in a ... jaded enough that things in MIT are just weird by default. Alan: I just

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to ... ...have a lot of blogposts in progress but I can't really say anything because ... In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... -done article. Plus, if you buy the actual magazine, you can see pictures of ... picture of where the "turkey" in "Turkey vs. Spam" comes from. This is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  having a schedule where you can, in fact, take the train three stops to eat ... call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences ... as far from adventure as a person can physically be (i.e., the book

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  within it, in the hopes that I can one day make a difference in it, and ... company past the program. Exhibit D: So proud of them :') While in Peru, I ... at it then was “A free trip to Russia? Heck, yeah. I can totally skip

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  where you might fit in here. Your MIT experience can be really different ... warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... write for the entire time. every so often i go through a phase where i ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023