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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  about the other people at MIT who shape the lives in our community: the ... associate with Jimmy - aluminum cans in a plastic bag, clanking away. I cried on Jimmy's shoulder that night. Jen with Big Jimmy, from In Memory of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... that are white. Other say it's because their tops are covered in ice. At

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM ... (Indigenous People's Day) to go camping - it's late enough in the season that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one that felt this bad. here's what i knew other people did: spend time in ... -baked hell, but i did make tea. in fact, i brewed myself at least four liters

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  us do multiple art styles in the same video. and we also liked the idea ... relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT ... drew everything frame by frame in Procreate (again). Angela: we grinded

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  My brother's not very impressed with my fashion sense. In his words, "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It ... makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... fun together again! One of my friends is in the Shakespeare ensemble ... impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... actually could sleep in… sleep is wonderful), we were still very, very busy ... , but those did happen, don’t worry!) (sidenote 2: the numbers in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a ... ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... too much time with my head buried in books--frigid weather, 4:30 PM ... constraints imposed by the rest of my life. Welp.) Sappho At some point in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... understand his tendency to just stay in his room most of the time. Often you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  House’s Lego Minifigure Hunt and the rest of my REX in my room playing ... glitter off a three-story tall trebuchet? It will twinkle like the stars in ... Throw paint-filled balloons at your friends in this clash of colors

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was ... in an actual YouTube educational video, as a host. Here a preview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... cookies, but in the end, most of the people are there for the cool kids: the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... climbed things. I participated in a protest. I met amazing people. I rocked ... with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  your living space. I was hesitant in taking pictures of my current room ... , I’d just flop over and fall asleep in my bed. It ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs. Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... debate. 8:13 pm They are going to flip the ritual package of Top Ramen in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual ... some people here even major in fields like Political Science, Music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it's greatBut while in this world I think I'll take my whiskey neatMy coffee ... grapeIf you can sit in a barrel, maybe I'll waitUntil that day I'd rather

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025