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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  had located the balls, but where was the ballpit? Turns out I was in ... paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and ... they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  .60, 8.01 open-notes: everything in course 10, 7.06 Mitra said: "I can say ... usually in such good condition that you can't even really tell what's wrong ... says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  some cans in it, and I politely asked, "Is the pop in there for everybody ... :00 PM; Athletics Fair in Rockwell Cage, 2:00-4:00 PM (bonus: I'll be in a ... I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  .       In some ways I've found recovery harder to handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT...because i was thinking of applying...if someone can help me...please e-amil me ... me look bad. =P I've copy-pasted all his answers into this post, in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  stairs. It was beautiful in a way that I can’t really explain. Anyway, I ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream ... 't get enough), I made my way to Tech East, one of the sections of CES. The ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a ... place where you can find video tutorials for a ton of software, you can ... internet. In other words, you can use up to 2 gigs of web space as an MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• 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 / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  hard now will pay off in the future. But sometimes I wonder where it ends ... undergrad life will be behind me. The person I am in my home at East Campus ... . In East Campus, I'm loud and brash, outspoken and generally not afraid

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  choose your living community? East Campus is where I felt most comfortable ... , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  :15 AM and then catch this train so I can be at home in sunny Harrisburg ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and head down to the North End, where I met them at Mike's Pastry. Probably

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that had passed since I was on the team in person, and the new members we ... more, where I could take on as much responsibility as I wanted at a given

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in ... programs have their own website with the application process clearly outlined
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... . I don't actually know much I can in conscience say about it. Near the ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons ... Carroll, Alice In Wonderland I’ve been re-re-re-re-rewriting this post ... -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  . Unfortunately, I can no longer drink the boba that’s normally sold in MIT ... times in my life. This is the first UROP where I really feel like I'm in ... 've met a lot of cats in East Campus (and in life in general, I guess), but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... interactive maps. Then, I took each entry in the list, grouped them by common

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  moments where i ask how can it be home when it so obviously, clearly, is not ... , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... "]IAP[/annotation], i began to cook™ for myself often. i would buy weekly groceries, make

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022