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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... didn’t end up being that nerdy, and it was cut in nice, sensible, easy-to ... to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West ... to make sure that EC gets a good housemaster, because we want EC to ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few

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

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... , highlighting differences in city design and planning between the two locales

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... right now. I have been in committed relationships back to back since I ... character flaw I needed to push through, or if this just meant I wasn't in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... East, on the wall next to her: And here she is again, getting fed an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged ... I did get to spend the other half pondering my project and customizing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... high school (duh), and most people had to fight to get the opportunities ... everybody could get a 100% or something, so people take it upon themselves to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We ... bit of ramen in those extended palms, a mother forced to feed children

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It ... cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually ... project organizers really brought in the community to take part in building ... you get when you cross the Flintstones with Public Transportation

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... room for them in the class. It has been our most competitive year ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... . Living in Random Hall, known to be a small, quirky, counter-culture dorm on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  into complacency but i have to finish these things swirling in my head so ... -ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6 ... and tests swirl in my head. they make me forget what's outside of campus

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009