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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry ... category called “Freestyle” where you can use any officially

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  , trashy novels or great lit in dead languages, you’ll find those who share your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either ... , you’ll always want to come home again.” The number cited in the e

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  ’s like to actually be a student here, or that I've helped you in your own ... . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  any opportunity that you can to present any research that you have done ... not yet stepped foot on campus, I hope you can make it next year! ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Stonehenge is not in Scotland. Okay, another cop-out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  population. Which means that, in all of those other colleges you applied to ... , there are buildings at just about every college in any country that can be ... , UROPs don't fall from the sky and land in your lap. You have to look into

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  already, but as in most things, just being polite can get you very far ... , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now ... , shower, and dress. It's been working out nicely. As I'm sure you can all ... have about 60-70 pages of reading per class per night. As you can see, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  ="If you live in a dorm with a dining hall, you are required to pay for a meal plan. If you live in a dorm without a dining hall, you still have ... [annotation note="can't get in"]nightclub[/annotation] every night. Still, I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  are few latrines in the village, but before more can be built, all the ... everything that seems "wrong" or "missing" really is. See you in February! ... 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new ... large whiteboards. You can often find people using the white boards to ... it's started SNOWING already in November (what is this?!?), it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  you and me. I don't believe any longer that we can afford to say that it ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of recent murders in Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, and Dallas rushing in torrents

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  -language tour guide said, "You can tell the new architecture from the old ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... picture of a broken chains statue that I saw on a postcard. You can normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  somewhere, even if you can't see it. And maybe even the belief in it is more ... moments in romantic relationships and even in friendships when you look over ... gratitude that you’re in each other’s lives. like, sometimes i look at my best

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT, I hope for you, sometime in these past years, I've drawn some of the ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  -contained and you can get full meals from any single station, there's nothing stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... -10 different vegetables (which is admittedly already a lot), but you can double

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  branches of our repository. the idea of a branch is that you can develop it ... all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023