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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  Cormick Annex, and this obscure 1929 photo of a streetcar crossing Harvard Bridge. ... , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... people who tested out of a lot of our required courses and were already

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... Ahhh, yes. I know this time of year. Left and right you have tiny ... petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you ... wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  job-wise, this has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year so far. I ... . it obviously didn't happen because of COVID, but since I'd been looking ... applied to dozens of companies. I got numerous rejections...roles for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  shout out to both of you :D (kind of wish I could tag people.. argh ... Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... 's abundant supply of grease, memories definitely washed over me all around

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  ="attachment_120549" align="aligncenter" width="600"] cross-sectional sketch of simmons ... ; many of MIT’s buildings have their own quirks and eccentricities. none of them, with the possible exception of stata, can rival simmons. whether

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... ice cream flavours.  If you ever meet me, one of the first things you ... pretty sizeable list of “things that tip people off”.  Some of these items

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  group of [annotation note="all junior, sophomore, and freshmen bombers (members of burton third)"]friends:[/annotation] Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain ... flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... Scale? It's one of my favorite career fair shirts, although I'm still mad that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... -looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... Professor in Evolutionary Biology (which I was able to cross-register and take

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008