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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  world in my UROP, where I take ground-up turkey carcasses and put them in ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  friends I can reach out to. And people probably think more highly of me in ... . Apparently it was even worse last semester, to the point where when I was ... warned me against ever taking it in the fall. I think the course staff

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new castle, Maseeh). Since it's the newest dorm on campus, I don't really think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance, in the morning. Except that I won’t see it in the morning light ... after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  college, where it was slowly accumulating dust in one of my drawers since I ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  head. MIT, the place that I call home, the place where I learn and live, the place where I felt safe, threatened by armed people? And all this ... about these things can be comforting in times like these. You never have

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it was a great community where I still hang out and pset at frequently ... getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending ... me it was in the cartoon "Herr Meets Hare" where Bugs Bunny first ... Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  and so on, but I never want to be in a situation where I'm twisting the ... So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... , and say: "Hey Flourish! I'm Chris. I work over in admissions. A decade

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so ... ... exist in spaces surrounded by people. I wrote something similar back in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hit - how are you doing? Where are you staying? What can we do to help ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  both undergrad and grad like 4.440. I learn Rhinoscript so I can code ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how much progress I can make if I consistently go to the gym for a year! I'll most likely take progress pics throughout the year just so I can see how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times ... . First, the fact that "I can't get the times right" means that the "times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  set. I had worked all summer in Latex and Matlab, and I was pretty ... 't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... for graduation, and the order in which I took/will take them: Freshman

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... apply to MIT if…?” I’m not an expert in this matter, nor can I pretend to ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Shorts – What more can I say? MIT Full Face Zip Hoodie – For when you ... that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017