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• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS: - Prioritizing sleep - Exercise - Taking Timur's money in Texas Hold 'Em THREE THINGS YOU NEED IN A ... THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: - Other people dying - My debt-to-income ratio

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  right wall. This door leads to 335s, the room I lived in during my first ... enough to fit a bed. Living in a small half is a good lesson in keeping ... to match my green stripes when she lived in it last fall. It is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  had my umbrella in hand, poncho over my backpack. I was ready to conquer ... weather works when you’re not in California? Every morning I've resorted to ... amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... on some Course X exams. If you happen to be in the Boston area this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  taught me not to put faith in the widespread claim that brown people don ... appropriate to be an MIT student here in Germany because we see ‘mit’ (which ... Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... realized that if i tried to chime in and say what everyone was saying... i ... at the same time i struggle to put my experiences out in the world for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... -festooned establishment in Uptown Manhattan that pampers to the effete relaxations of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  get the first half down. We practiced in a courtyard with two giant ... in the drill, and then taking large bows. I tried to remember slow ... beavers all. And when we get together, We do the beaver call. e to the u, du

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to ... tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... sometimes. In this case, some utility workers decided to mark an underground

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ... think I’m crazy.   “I’ll get a UROP to have something to do.” But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse ... alike ran over to watch. Really, though? Fighting in an airport terminal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  math that led to satisfying conclusions. In other words, all the things I ... -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... the shape of the façade. In the month that I spent there, I got to see

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  get you down. Most importantly, revel in your work, and not your prize ... your time to remember all the cool things you did in school. It’s a ... only one. We’re here. Email, and I can blog about it. I may not get to it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  their lives and we headed over to Kansas. I've since lived in Kansas for ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus ... orientation to MIT. The week following Interphase I also participated in an FPOP

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  enough to get around Rome for 2 days this spring.... Anyway, like all good ... ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... article was passed around in a Beijing interns email thread, introducing the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... easily study in my room, the space I specifically cultivated to be ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever since. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to participate in it this year because ... to Kresge to get a peek inside. However, it seemed as though many other

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  very easy to talk to people, make connections, and work together to get ... , and intuitive, inherent beauty. Or, to put it in the words of ... [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in ... philippines is in the tropics, so it's hot. the coldest it gets in my city is 20 ... many to work abroad. the title, walang natira, means "nothing left". in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022