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• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  amiable to the point of insisting that we call him by first name, in which ... ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2 ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  the first person to take their pants off? That, um, wasn't an issue ... during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  The Quiz: HEY GUYS UPDATE THE LINK DOESNT WORK ANYMORE ILL TRY TO FIX ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms overall. The plan was to create some questions and disseminate them through

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots.  But first, let’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  the team's first initiative and am looking forward to seeing if we ... 't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

    Last night, Jon Stewart announced his plans to leave ... , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... quite pleased with my culinary accomplishments last IAP, so I’m excited to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  now see: At first, I thought I just needed to update the code. But ... " button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said ... bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the humanities, listening to lectures about the humanities, going to recitations

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... an e-mail informing me that there was to be another flash mob, this

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  was sick when classes first started, got better, and now I've been sick ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... was so weak and feverish that I dragged myself over to MIT Medical to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen ... blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006