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• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  health failures, I made a point to exercise in the Z-Center gym daily

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  , S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ü, ë, ä, ß. I come, you come, he/she comes, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  's over 300 student groups and organizations set up booths in the Z center

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  advantage of the well-equipped Z Center. Benefit of going to a nerd school

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  run at the Z center. You'll find you'll be much happier if you take care

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  : intel i5 2500K (OC'd to 3.8Ghz) CPU COOLER: Hyper212+ MOBO: GA-Z68X-UD3H

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  always had time to do X and Y and then pile on Z. But, MIT has so many

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  I might as well tell you straight away that this story ends with Lady Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the newspapers will spin you…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  (Instructables! Whoa, we spawned that?), Z-Corp, & more. Whoa. (If you don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  I have done exactly three things since winter holiday ennui sprouted all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked bread. 2.Read Feynman. 3.Written this list. On second thought,…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  -performed war dance. ‚ò∫ While Dodgeball is played in the Z-Center – a central

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure-cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed-over study guides, that I asked aloud,…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open, the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It’s time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I’m presenting the winning entries of the CPW Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW attendees based on their representation…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Factoid of the Day: I’ve never paid for food from the MIT Student Center. (Secondary factoid: The primary factoid does not indicate that I have ever shoplifted food (foodlifted?) from…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? About 25% of my blog posts are partially written while doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden days of MITblogs, circa…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  Feb. 2nd: It’s the night before the Spring semester makes an illegal left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to major in Course 2 or 6 (translation: Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). Someone took this…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008