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• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  still covering old material, and there are no exams in sight. Perhaps a ... fully immersed in a cloud of good old fashioned cold symptoms and I wanted nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video ... in my case is my mentor, since my team's manager works in cambridge. my ... garnet unfuses to ruby and sapphire in steven universe, how they were a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th ... hearing of Random Hall, even before talking to Donald Guy '12 (who, in all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  [/annotation] of a college town. Everywhere you go is covered in Umich ... would room with who, considering their majors, and participating in ... wouldn’t be in a dorm like I am now. I’d be living off-campus in a three

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is ... that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  . The cheapest hot item is a Cup of Noodles, which is free at MIT if you ... . There is a commotion among the Amish, who gather around the window to gawk ... internal pandemonium and go off in search of the attendant who is in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... are weird because linear algebra is weird. Suppose you rotated a cube 45

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  . In fact, I have a free hour on Fridays before class in 10-250 (right ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... itself.   One interesting point here is that a lot of the libraries

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  ’m assuming that I’m right. The Water War is a yearly tradition in which we East ... around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... . Come party with us in the completed fort and participate in a variety of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  you out there in TV Land who have been stalking me, here's my plan of ... here in Germany. Check out my entire summer salary from Volksbank, who ... chocolate confiscated. Settle in for a drive home with Sam's Mom, eat some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... advantage of it - if you're walking around in Baker and run into a bunch of ... you've had since forever, or you get home after a long trip and just put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  Shakesperian love sonnets, in full 14-line iambic pentameter. So: as a few of the ... structure*** The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. In other words, the ... the tricky part. Each line is written in what's known as "iambic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let ... 'easter is a big snowstorm and a virtually seasonal aspect of New England life ... well enough. And they're right. Snow day: Any day in which school is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  students are involved in some kind of sport). MIT is like drinking from a ... Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  .   Major   This is the story of a boy who watched the above movie (Hackers) and fell in love with the concept of Computer Science. A ... what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who works as a director for a rather large freight railroad in the West. It ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  bloggers who did this when they graduated too :-). first, the numbers In 8 ... major in 6-2 (electrical engineering and computer science), a major in 4-B (art and design), and a minor in CMS (comparative media studies). Some

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going ... next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... take a tour of some of MIT's greatest works of student art, found in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  also describes Liechtenstein thusly: "Mountainous, it is a winter sports resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven." Poor Liechtenstein ... I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  is decked out in a bunch of different colors right now, including their ... , HydroHold, helps rescue divers recover victims in a hands-free manner by ... Defibrillator, which started as a 2.009 project and now is spreading to campuses

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025