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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... experience, the best provider you can get at MIT, and if you look at specials ... commercial is so good that I could probably call up Verizon right now and make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings ... atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... Campus dorms) are more diverse and unconventional. Residents in this part

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to break my blogger drought (rip sophomore year) and b) I'm working on a really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  upcoming year, and I myself was graciously offered a spot—which means I ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT Associate Provost Philip Khoury brought together the MIT arts faculty and

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  theory and state machines. Lots of fun math-y stuff. Even though I have no ... , counting down seconds until the next class, and over and over again. I ... , and erase it all immediately after. Then I got here. I’ve quickly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  my camera could capture more than just colors, lights, and shadows. The 'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... [annotation note="hi '28s! welcome to campus <3"]new class year[/annotation], and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  works out beautifully. And that no experimental evidence has ever disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors, LEDs, and other semiconductor devices – would not exist without our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  network with businessmen, entrepreneurs, and investors. Even the physical ... startup scene and meeting more and more influential people. The center of ... sides. After I gorged on the cheese and crackers (this broke college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  my floormates and stare at their food until they offer me some, or ... between “I’m currently eating” and “I’m currently dining.” Dining is so professional, deliberate, and sophisticated. It feels politically correct. But

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a ... computer science world. That being said, I've found myself indulging and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now ... , Baltimore/Washington, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco Bay areas. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  i was a bit clueless about spin states and terrestrial carbon sinks ... of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... general. Relief, freedom, and possibility overwhelms me, feelings that were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... . Laundry is $0.75 per washer and $0.25 per dryer. You can pay for it with ... owns and maintains a small exercise room for residents. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  people ask my major. Course 12 is Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the ... mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022