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• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... the jog estimating that in miles-per-hour and minutes-per-mile. Hours ... question above, I joked that "he wrote the book" on the subject, since we had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... which room, which bed, which pillow, and so on... until you've decided ... Burton-Conner tonight trying to get all the cool freshman to live on Conner

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  Counselor on-hand or schedule a 20-minute appointment to speak one-on-one with ... When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on ... we want all our visitors to enjoy their time on campus so here are some

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite ... stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... Venus is a fairly predictable thing.” He paused, switching the settings on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor ... 's population had seemingly doubled on the cusp of the weekend as tides of alumni ... people stretched on the carpet, laptop cables and flipped-open screens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... effortlessly through the high A's on "Thou Shalt Break Them." Go Jason Mc ... things commercially on this blog, but seriously, Jason McStoots rocks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  my days are filled with quiet days on a lake, inter-planetary battles ... sparkling and buoyant. I want to find that feeling on whatever of the one ... parents were going to move me in my freshman year, I sat on the brick steps

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three ... on both sides with electrical cables, supported by poles no taller than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  go back to my room to throw on something warmer. I'm not entirely sure ... 't really have time to study for. The website we were taking the quiz on crashed about two minutes in. I didn't get back to my dorm till 7:55pm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... friends who went on the Summerland trail![/caption] The first part of the ... brook on each side in an emerald meadow spotted with summertime flowers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... jacket to keep me toasty. Next House is like a 15 to 20-minute walk to any ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  on this. For now, let's do a time warp and go back a couple hours. It ... missionaries (they're awesome). He spotted some of the other missionaries on Kresge lawn playing ball, and a few minutes later we had formed teams for a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  spent most of finals week living on Pop-Tarts; if I couldn’t even feed ... that a lot of our friends recommended. It was freezing. We got on the ... , and got on again on the other side. The tattoo parlor looked

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... only on schoolwork, but on scholarship applications as well. There was ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  class discussion. It usually takes me about 20 minutes to digest the poem ... writing out my thoughts on the poem, I'm able to make connections that I ... . Just about 20 minutes ago, so I thought I'd share it. It's by Robert

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning ... sauce and 45 minutes of frying later, I had forty-six nigh ... night, so I guess it was a jorb well done. A pox on Jeremy and Javier for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  a fifteen minute walk from East Campus.) The food was pretty good! I ... at MIT can you walk past Building 32 (yeah, fine, the Stata Center) on ... , basking blondes are no match for pillows in flight. Back on Tetazoo, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming ... course, most of the videos are nothing more than 5 minutes of someone with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an ... student "studyblrs" on tumblr, and I applaud them for being very specific ... little contribution, and I have since modified and added to it for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  sleeping man, who had slumped over and is now sprawled out on the ground ... at Peace." Having thus decreed by the Professor, Oasis embarked on an ... complex (ha), so here goes: When I was on my way back from Central America

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008