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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through ... pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the ... most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October 7, 2011 : Take note (ahaha) of a few things: 1.) The reason you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... . Tests every couple of weeks (I just took my first couple tests this past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... -induced stress (yes, already), and of course free food. Already, many notable ... , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has ... surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a ... meet the bloggers! Come to Battle of the Bands! We gonna have fun, c

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  ?...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness” This night was just ... menu, there was a smorgasbord of amazing food from both Peru and the ... Reggaeton hits for hours and hours of dancing fun! Sabrosura was AMAZING

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... application of course, or what you want to do with your life, and so forth - but ... 'm reading all of your comments, even if I'm not responding as much today as we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  squads of around 9 with people from other ROTC programs like Northeastern ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... of higher, and passwords so you can identify friendlies. Each team has

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  bloggers are doing an amazing job of keeping the MIT Admissions page updated ... else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do ... couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  the loss of sleep one single bit. To explain: Milan, MIT's annual ... arrival of more experienced dancers, the energy rapidly picked up, and the next few hours were spent lost in the whirlwind of glorious endorphins

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the World Cup - pretend to care about in spirit of global love): French Open

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth-crippling refreshes of https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php. If this sounds like you ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was ... making y’all dizzy. :P A tidbit of info on this electrobop ... absolutely love an encore – but this time, under the protection of Johnson

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  like this one. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net And of course if you wait a few years they get quite large... Photo courtesy of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... ; Bane of my existence, and I know I’m not alone. For 8.01 – the intro

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  drowned out by the blinding rays of a familiar sunset. I adore the sight ... ’t going to jump out of the screen and stop me from carving some pumpkins ... our table (there were 4 of them) and grabbed 2 more from another table

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  What sets MIT's East Campus apart from other dorms of the college ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... can look down the entire length of your hall and see EVERYTHING.. 7

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009