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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  in, just because I wish people in this country would actually vote! I ... . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach ... places in Yosemite, and swapped some old gear I had for other people’s used ... stories we wear." - Worn Wear Buying new stuff is fun. It provides that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  graduation last night, mostly because I believe strongly in keeping up a tough ... . I was secretly hoping that he'd slip in a line at the end like "And in ... would be complete without pictures? Graduation was held, as always, in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  where I suspect that in several years I would be sad if I hadn't been ... Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  , unsurprisingly, was dormed in Random. I kind of knew I would be placed in Random ... panic.[/annotation] Would it be like a sorority? I don't want to live in a ... here in Random. Pre Dorm Assignment Moments after I was admitted to MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... real leadership positions in high school.” When I asked Leo about his

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... event was so incredibly nice. "I'm here because making friends in your ... better at crocheting. I would come home from a long day at my UROP

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... grocery stores listed in the previous MIT groceries guide, and I’ve scouted

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... Street in historic Old Port. I caught lunch just a few steps away at Mim ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I’ve hit that milestone this semester and would like to share 21 thoughts I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... heavily, but in some cases yes. / Yes. I am an international student in an

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  . After all, what else would you have said in that situation? Alan: I mean ... stormy. I was visiting Shuli in East Campus one night, and, afterwards ... petty games, Alan. I'm so above petty games, in fact, that in that evening

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... noted, that would be European Pi Day (31/4), but I missed it this year ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Wow so …….... I’ve been MIA for a whiiile. In the past 2 months – which is an eternity in cyberspace (sorry ‚òπ), I: * Finished 1st year ... in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... students and faculty in various departments, and I've decided that my best ... want to make that my minor, with a major in management, but I'm going to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  .350 - Topics and Methods in 21st Century Journalism 12 units I ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013