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• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  355 Massachusetts Avenue, a seven-minute walk from main campus. You may ... year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... time has taken on a new form. From the second my head lifts from the ... minutes about what media constitutes, only to reach a resolution that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... thin layer on top. To a chocolate lover like me, it tasted heavenly ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  me (it tastes like autumn), so here it is (mostly based on this betty ... dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake ... chopstick comes out clean), about 45 minutes. Result looks something like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... white shadow on all the trees. In the summer the cold settles between the valleys. Mornings are foggy; nights are cold. On the 4th of July you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  fulfilled every point on the mental checklist that made up my housing choices ... windows and shining on scattered notes and chalk drawings on curved ... campus and visit the last one on her list: Senior House. I hadn’t been to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  concept might appear on a test. Once lecture notes have been copied down, I ... during an exam is worth every minute. One could argue that cheat sheets as ... and formulas on their limited sheet of paper that they have condensed

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  like an old crow looks back on the time that has flown by. On my first ... I am being kicked from the nest without being able to fly. I sit on ... hour super lectures on the biology of DNA and chemistry of petroleum. 7

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... :23pm on Thursday, May 12, my work at MIT was done. Like many other ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... while building a paper bridge on time, within their materials budget, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming ... make a few promises on future content. Quite a lot has been compressed ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... on my floor opened their mouths…and proceeded to shout, really loudly, continuously, for several minutes. According to some of them, people are actually

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... right. Eyes on the Frisbee, I began to run sideways. BAM. Crashed into a ... rolled, lost my balance, fell. Ankle in pain. Head on knees. A chorus of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  on my way to Hollywood, but found Christopher Columbus, who pointed me ... from my alma mater Morehouse College. FYI - That is my shoe on the ... , while I was on the road, there were a number of really interesting

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed ... yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... Hall's lounges at 11 pm on Sunday. 1.Take 7 times 4, multiply by 10, add

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  been skiing or snowboarding or just plain cold for more than 20 minutes ... the blue paint on our walls wasn’t magic enough. And then I had to blog ... sitting on this deck in the woods, minding my own business, right, when

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  size of our international audience, I thought I might take a few minutes ... which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title.) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last, though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... . (For more about IAP, see my former entries on IAP 2007 and 2006. So what do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007