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• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  inordinate amount of time sitting at my desk. As a student studying computer ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of itself), it felt foreign, nothing like walking through the familiarity of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  Natalya Brikner and the judging panel   At the beginning of this year ... I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just ... very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was ... weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like ... dressed out of the norm. Wearing just a flannel shirt is out of the norm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to ... seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  of being back and Matt McGann and Chris Peterson have already called me ... (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore?? Crap.) here to tell you about life at this "quirky and special" place. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... informs you of the options you have, at which point you can decide what's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  -Hamentaschen debate. Some kind of party held at the height of Nelly's popularity, which ... : Pimp My Sukkah. Hello everyone! FYSH (first year students of Hillel) is ... decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I ... couple. :) Nicole R. asked: "Do most of the dorms have bunk beds or two seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and ... her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  150. At the same time, I bid the Class of 2011 goodbye with the promise ... to even realize…ways that will be a part of them when their time at MIT ... I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... fair share of building since I've gotten here (plastic bottle pirate ship, 4 robots, an Olmec, etc) but all of that used skills that I really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  night. Saw the Fourth of July fireworks LIVE at Boston's Hatch Shell ... , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... thick, they also have another type of sign for high voltages: If you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... interning at was closed for part of the summer, meaning I would have to come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... vulnerability lies not in my habit of smiling at strangers, but in two things: my ... the people I saw on the streets) of smiling at strangers like I already

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  , so their residents get the feeling of being away from school at night ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008