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• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the ... New York at 11:00 AM. Of course, the Fung Wah Bus Company hurriedly ... their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  to possess some degree of moral aptitude, and in so far as moral ... , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to ... version of a powerpoint literary presentation I gave at Alpha Delta Phi a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  again requested, this time by Rachel W. '16, founding President of MIT ... a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... the Boston Qualiflyer for Red Bull Paper Wings. If you haven't heard of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... a Guitar Hero guitar (that's the point of Guitar Hero), and if anyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to ... delight. I repeatedly and very awkwardly offered to pay her back, take down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... content of all of my classes, especially my HASS classes and found myself ... they felt within society and culture. I also got out of my comfort zone a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of ... percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent ... . October was a month of fun - work, yes, but also fun. iHouse had a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  advantage of one of the best opportunities MIT has to offer. You won’t regret ... her for life outside of the MIT bubble. I love hearing other students' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the cellular/molecular neurobiology type, because that's her field of interest

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our ... tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room ... forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012