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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... abandon faith in health insurance and maybe even dentists. When you can ... feel inferior or weirded out or worried about network problems that I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG...CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren't you super excited?!?!? I ... current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don ... 't gotten back to him/her yet, do so ASAP so you can work out living

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some ... this subject while growing up in the 2010s, but this was the first time i ... , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6 ... . This may sound like we simply fall back into a well-worn rut, but in fact MIT is quite remarkable in its constant pedagogical experiments and

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  our usernames back in those days), I chose madmatt as my username. It ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting you choose your own email address (you can laugh at your friends at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise ... the inside and wondering how long I can keep the charade up) Five

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... scores: 0 While driving in the car yesterday, I heard MIT Civil & ... , I came across an article in today's Boston Globe about Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ... experience (my roommate proceeded to whisper "Oh my God, Melis, I can't believe ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  wrong? In the leadup to bread day, I shifted my nervousness to the bread ... game plan. I revised the game plan, again. The morning of, I paced in my ... I have a sourdough starter! His name is[annotation note="a Roman

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I ... . I've worked around equations in loops that bring me back to where I ... we had in mind starting out, but we will find some point C that we can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long maintained that one learns more in a week of travel than in a month of high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  hours so teams can continue to call in answers and meet with us. If you ... Now blogging live from Mystery Hunt: FRIDAY [12:17 PM] Meet in Lobby 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  * "this bad boy can fit so many velociraptors in it” – Anonymous MIT ... participate in the program. “Is this the button that opens the door? I really ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... will probably end up over seventy-eight hours. In the meantime, I’ve brought everything I need to entertain me: more books than I can imagine

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  can do the job as well. You're in charge though; it's your life. Make ... with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... students that means sweaty palms, quickened paces, and anxiety that WebMD can

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint ... SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014