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• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  higher. I can feel it in those unexpected can’t-stop-smiling experiences ... I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  rfong style, I celebrated by buying a 14oz teapot. Just kidding. In even ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... in. Where am I, anyways? Second excuse: I started working for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year ... once, and he asked if he could use them in lecture. I granted permission ... , but I've found that just closing my eyes for 15-20 minutes can really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  be saying about that. I can’t talk about what goes on exactly, but I ... . Now I’m just thinking how in the world the SAT – which has nearly 200 ... decided to start something. This one’s about how jaded I am about buying

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  curse word I can think of becomes a filler word in Spanish. I'm not even ... . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... confusion. I read in the itinerary that MIT would be bussing us from the ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my ... in MacGregor, and I can see "GO C's" projected on the Prudential Tower

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... in for my HASS concentration! I will concentrate in writing and reading ... in Houston, Texas! I am so excited! The company has been sending me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="attachment_57638" align="alignnone" width="660"] done in high school - i can ... , like I’m 14 and can’t pay attention in geometry. I’m taking CMS.307 ... buy inks or special pens or paints, because I can just change the brush

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  history. I grabbed an excerpt from her autobiography, “My Life in France ... international readers) February day in Boston. I got on my bike and just explored ... -turns and twists and cobblestone sidewalks later, I stood in front of her

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  efficient system. I still visit the dining halls frequently - you can buy ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and-maybe-even-smuggle-out-in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  auxiliary verb in the first example. We can substitute another auxiliary verb, "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... gonna- "I'm gonna buy that book." But what about another example- "I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week ... 'm from NYC, of course I can't drive..."]all three....[/annotation] Hard as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  can do great things for each other. Any others that I'm missing? In any ... enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... safety, comfort, stability.  I wanted to be home. I can’t, to be honest

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to read the previous paragraph, in which I describe my 8.022 exam in the ... I used the Lagrangian on a test in the vain hope that this would amuse

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... question! I can't speak for everywhere, but I've never known lack of kitchen ... gone an hour and a half after I put it in the freezer). On 5th East, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  really great semester class-wise. I hope I can get three of these classes ... castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015