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• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  I ever could from a lifetime of reading and studying. I don’t ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... bulldozed to the ground last year. I also owe a big thank-you to Anne, who

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... fruit snacks, I can afford a $50 donation once a month...maybe. But ... graduated from college; at the same time, I can still remember hopping off the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  feet by 7 feet. You can even buy the book at Amazon.com! (For those not ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  analysis for two labs. It's going to be a long day. And to ensure I can ... It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  I'm not so reliant on them. I gave up shaving for IAP and now I can go ... days a week. I say it's for water conservation, but it's totally laziness ... with vegetables and tofu--I cook for myself a lot during the school year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... time steps between moving from a booth to another, I’ll either clock you ... together to the United Arab Emirates for a couple of days, where we bonded

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  can also buy souvenirs, including hot sauce from the world's #1 hot shop ... year, but I hope they bring them back in the future for a perfect blend ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  down at a conceptual level... I can do it if I switch from skate to skate ... opportunity for me to buy a new, ultra-trendy, well-engineered bowl from the ... . 2. I got an A on my Pulitzer-worthy essay for German I, "Mein Freund

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... pick bloggers from a wide range of dorms, activities, writing styles, etc ... interesting. I'm a blogger, I blog about content that I like. That's why you

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  (where I am now!) for... Meeting #5: An astronomer in Leiden, the Netherlands I'm applying for a Fulbright: a scholarship which would send me to ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  New York Times!       A Lab Where You Can Lick the ... age 10, she had developed a preference for dark chocolate from Zabar ... postdoctoral biology student. "Now I feel like I can mess with my chocolate a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  horses (nope, whew) + MIT Send-off Here are a gazillion pictures from ... fries. I feel really bad for the stands that were *selling* garlic ... for free. The happiest (and stinkiest) I've been in years. Eating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect ... really these developments and travels have been great and I've learned a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... there’s a [annotation note="For a $50 annual student membership, you can ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  tradition: i was a wingrep for 2E last fall, so i ran the game, but didn ... trust your friends and form alliances? or should you be a lone wolf? i ... the storm || a triplet of kills. 1:20 pm i'm back from 6.031 lecture

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  period where I was burnt out and on a break from making art. This was the ... important to me, and the friendships that I've made from nostalgia for ... MUCH ace: I MISS ITTTT UWAHSHDLDJDKS I WAS LIKE A DECENT LEVEL FOR

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  , departments, resources and culture. It turns out where you live can strongly ... live. I chose Random Hall, a decision I've never regretted. MIT's REX (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... the beginning of a project, which I’ve found immensely helpful for ... . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a ... 've gotten to do through MIT. For example last semester, I took 2.008 (a Design

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014