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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  buys food (Which is what you need in order to live. You’ll find that ... dinner in Boston but mostly I’m a TechCash guy. I wonder if that has ... ’ve yet to cash in on this, but I have a feeling that there are Bose

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  situation: B1 feels like home in a way that I didn't really believe I would ... , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited ... , I found her and two more of my friends in there, hanging out, waiting

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... -grandchildren...yet." When I came to MIT, I was somewhat afraid of what relationships would be like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free Snapple, cheered for the runners, and not-so-jokingly announced I would run

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even ... better this way. Now, I will always remember them in their best form with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  regular basis, or that I would forget the existence of misery in the world ... imagined that in the midst of relentless intellectual challenges, I would ... sunlight, crystallize it in glass forever. Sometimes I succeed, but it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  night in Hong Kong, I leaned over the balcony in the common room and watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  b.s. or exercises in covering your tracks after messing up. But then I ... first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and ... I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... things. Over the summer, I climbed a tree in a banana suit (long story) and ... go, you could blog about it..." OKAY I'M IN SUCKERS! Thus, Luke, Sasha

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority ... us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them! Alpha Phi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  drinks cool. I opened the fridge in the middle of the night to grab ... to be hardcore and sleep outside in the snow. Sam and I were among ... picture, because I told everyone to gather in and then held my camera out at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  in on 6.006 I dropped 6.006 to Listener mid semester but continued ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class ... House']4W[/annotation] people. I got like two tossups in the entire

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  taking leave. I realized that taking leave would allow me to feel in ... internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... defining “Home”. It’s something I didn’t really know I would have to do. It ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... 12.5% of our total grade in the class, I was not so happy about it. I ... that I'm capable and can do engineering things in interesting classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005