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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  stress of college applications and the stress of just being at school in ... November? Is this the universe saying it's proud of me?" I still don ... , letting them know the good news. I got a lot of fake shit at school. A lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... Sarah O'Connor was one of my 5.12 professors at the time, I stayed after ... with a grad student at the start of the fall term. Since last semester

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of ... backpack it went. Hardly was this inconsistent with the Way of Things at MIT ... along the lines of “Free ___ and ___ at (some place within a 5-minute run

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  . My first article on the implications of the new Internet domain names ... architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... nourished by the university."]Aulus.[/annotation] (Me: "Mom, if you were my ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  . Check people in and out of the dorm at the beginning and end of the year ... -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least ... nitrogen ice cream at Random Hall. Now, I'm going to highlight some of the ... take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course ... visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a ... , hopelessly misinterpreting T routes (at one point, our group of three ended up

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  records in central square has a few cases of $1 records at the entrance, but ... every row of knitting, i'm better at maintaining the tension that i hold the yarn with, and i'm better at keeping track of how many stitches i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... , so there was plenty of time to work out. The meal plan offered protein ... slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  snow, you can land on the water," Pasternak says. "It's a new vision of ... /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  sighting of the dome! We’re close. We arrive at the check in place in the ... drop it at 8 PM, but there were A LOT of bouncy balls. Sadly, I couldn ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... was pretty crowded. There was a ton of awesome stuff to look at ... the folks who design all of the coolest computing projects at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book ... [/annotation] [annotation note="the cliffhanger at the end of the second season REALLY KILLED

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at ... an entirely new perspective: our roof! And of ... Even though I just finished my first year at MIT, this is actually my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ...   a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by Bon Jovi press play, then scroll down and sing the new lyrics  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008