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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  campus happiness between today and yesterday is the biggest i've ever seen ...   and laughing at a bizarre article about the "craziest items seized by the TSA"  until 9, then walked into the kitchen and sat talking with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I've started my class. If you're a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a ... Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  June, and Paul Baranay '11, Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson '11, Jonathan Chapman '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... been printed. And a few—a very few—had not even been finished

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  understood what I was talking about at all, and Mrs. O'Brien told me I was ... supporting my conclusion, and she told me that Joyce Carol Oates called that ... like two years until I read Everything is Illuminated and found out that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  hours, and I'm feeling a little guilty. See, it's the MIT biology interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... weather, and I assured them that it had been warm all winter and had hardly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... was just really weird getting here and hearing it called "lonn" though ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  comments. So go back and read the comments! It's like when your favorite ... music, and I've heard that MIT has a rather strong music department. Could you give me a little information on its orchestra and chamber music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... Tuesday, November 26th. Our spirit is indomitable, and our ambition knows no bounds. After 251 messages, 4 in-person scheming sessions, and a very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  . Senior year was a blur, and junior year basically never existed. I forgot ... clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... , doing laundry regularly), and worse at the things I used to do

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  ="probability and random variables"]18.600,[/annotation] just this morning, after ... energy drinks and naps on a very cozy couch. The exam still went rather ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and ... super excited, or kind of nervous, or maybe you've already comMITted and so you're honestly kinda meh. And that's all okay! I definitely can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  the same code all day? All questions that concerned me and the next 40 ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the interesting problems I tackled and the imposter-syndrome-inducing people I met

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... ; that's around $12 per dinner and $6.60 per breakfast.  It's also use ... 't cover. You can do better than that.  Cook for yourself, eat tastier (and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  Meet my roommate and me: [carousel image1="105826" image2 ... sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... Equipment: 2 carts borrowed from dorms and an indominable spirit Timeline

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... as wiser than sophomores and freshman when i barely know my way around ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... about the direction of our club and other high-level issues that are hard

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  blog post to announce that and explain why.  As you may know, the wait ... students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... to go to the wait list, and almost always do. The students on our wait

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod ... sickeningly bright green drink—a matcha frappuccino—and prayed to the stars that we wouldn't end up with that order. and....you guessed it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020