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• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their ... after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to ... from me. So anyway, there’s my first compelling reason to come to MIT

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... weekend baby!!! Some people may sneer at how MIT folks seem married to ... traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... called the "Bring the Feast" FAC. I was unable to attend the event ... ? The career fair is tomorrow, so we had to do it on Thursday. Did we all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give ... for all the dorm bathrooms (which I'll leave to blog readers to describe

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

    I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Boston’s Back Bay): The Glee Club and Orchestra are so fortunate as to ... recitation-room, is to be heated and lighted, and, through the kindness of President Walker, the musical societies will be permitted to place a piano

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  . Together, these classes are 42 units. It's nice to finally have a ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  Camp. The footage has now been edited together in an engaging way and ... wearing lavender gloves. (Whatever company decided to go with lavender

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  to put together a petition to have an alternate version of the ring ... to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the freshmen year, about a dozen students are appointed to the Ring Committee (by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  spend a lot of time putting these programs together to answer your many ... adult swim. Parents, Welcome back to the Nance Effect! Hopefully you ... color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  to the next pictures from there if needed!) https ... . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell, the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022