Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... mushroom burger later I was uncomfortably full and ready to head back, but ... intricacies when we approached a couple heading in the opposite direction. I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , when I’m sitting in the solar car, I can’t see behind me. There is no ... fiction,’ I can assure you it is not :) Background Info (Not really a story ... ,[/annotation] Mcpherson, KS, Dodge City, KS, [annotation note="Nimby, I don't think we're in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  shops in NYC to smell different ones; I can feel myself developing a sense ... This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been ... I did a lot of reading and relaxing. That in itself isn't a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter ... , since my parents are overseas and i'm in boston, so most of these old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... : Finally at Merck! I can't actually talk about my specific project, but just as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... creativity. I really like cooking. It is kind of fun to look in your pantry

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... become obsolete like a floppy disk. I can hold my reservations about said ... can only keep going, or we wouldn’t be where we are today. IN

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  even thought, hey, everyone will be wearing duct tape. What can I do to ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country ... the athlete's point of view. As I said, I rarely eat in the dining

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... backlog of things to do grew larger. Friday, April 16th, in the Evening I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then ... weird. 4. Tuesday Nov 6: I voted in the presidential election for the ... . Turned 20 at 7am. Half an hour after turning 20, I was in an office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... Ok, so you know how Chris is always talking about free food? Well, I seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and ... rush dies down just in time for the weekend, which I will be spending out ... out, so I turned around just in time to duck. I was one of the closest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  to help build a fort. I didn’t have any experience working with wood. I ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id ... in paint, approximately how i cut the π[/caption] I had to cut it in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015