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• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  that i am simply a visitor, a traveler from a faraway land. there are no ... and asks me if i have determined the correct final velocity for a dust ... distance s starting from rest in a vertically oriented electric dipole. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  the last years, I'm embarking on a multi-part project called "Where are ... corner of their heart a little bit from time to time, well, here's my ... element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass ... all). I'd say that's a pretty successful result for her. There were a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  This year, we received 12,443 applications for freshman admission, a record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533 students total (including the 390 from early action) for an overall admit

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

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  Stuart, who, aside from having a great name, works for MITMedical and is ... other distra- I mean, classmates around for help. I'm a firm believer in ... I'm putting it aside for now until I can properly research some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I did a comedy set* in front of 1000 MIT admits and everything else that happened at this year’s CPW opening ceremony

  

  for my sound check the hour before the show. I was initially a little ... spent the whole time trying to guess where I was from; he looked at me when I cheered for [annotation note="the furtherest place from which MIT

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... . Here I captured a brand in transition from Big Corporate Capital Letters ... street with no trees or plants when he appeared. Where did he come from? I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  him. Well, I can do that too. I got a little worried that the fire ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... about them. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing--I never would have met

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in high school, for example, i called people in higher years "kuya", like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free ... away from the finish line, so if I can use the desire to see MIT people ... Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... distracted me from a straightforward career progression too--though I ... you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  to worse, I can just take the Athena chairs down the ramp a couple times, or organize a pick-up game of Capture the Flag, or see if I can ... entry. MIT is intimidating. This was the first thing that I saw from the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  .  Instead, I attended a three-day program during Spring Break where I worked ... the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, is a program for ... searches and in preparation for the summer and the future.  UPOP also holds a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... . In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  rest of my breakfast burrito from yesterday for lunch. i need a new ... wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five ... semester, i've got a working poster that i can recycle, but there's a lot

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... (which was a much more pleasant experience) I was ready for the next step

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  has for three years worked in a lab analyzing the effects of recombinant ... active volunteer emergency medical technician, and a tutor for ... engineering, but first will read for the B.A. in philosophy, politics and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I ... so many I can't possibly do them all, in a day or a week or even this ... laptop for the first two days. It was after I returned from one of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  about this store, I can't see anything that's really different from a ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago ... though (I surmise some were recruited from other stores just for this event

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... better at crocheting. I would come home from a long day at my UROP ... ="85766" image4="85768" image5="85769" /] Not bad for a month of progress! I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023