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• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep gratuitous amounts and eat animals I wasn't aware still existed while lounging around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ="attachment_50445" align="aligncenter" width="600"] i can make diagrams in paint ... . Epsilon Theta has ET Phone In Answer, which I don’t know much about ... "] taken from the 2014 mystery hunt website[/caption]And there are teams I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  for two summers when I was a kid), but I would usually always stay in ... family in Nagano and Kyoto; I would go to karaoke bars and firework shows ... and internships in Japan!!"]MISTI Japan program[/annotation]. I was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after ... branded it as bubble tea. i loved that place in high school, but compared to ... would go through, even citing mit's minecraft version: in the end, we

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the ... seriously feels as though I spent more of last week in dance practice than I ... In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... said: I'm planning to miss the Admitted Students party in my area because ... : Congrats on passing the EMT exam! I'm currently in the middle of my EMT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  friend, accused of raping children and in all honesty I would probably tell ... would not have the library that I study in. We would not have the new ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  delivered on that front. I’ve never stared at VSCode so much in my life. 6 ... internet we all take for granted. I also learned (somewhat) how to code in ... agency in this area), so MAPC representatives would provide feedback

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... feeling sad? Was there any effort in the decor/design? With that, I present ... Cormick-goers want to challenge this, I would allow the discourse."]McCormick (D

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... at Ring Delivery in April. When I got my sample ring, it was too small ... the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... website: "Air in the engine is cyclically heated (by an alcohol burner) and ... stumbled upon some of their kilns in the Student Center. So, hurray, now I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... (maybe two weeks)). A small melted candle (which I would never ever light

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being ... in America right now but I'd love to go to MIT and it just seems like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ), I felt like a kid again. There was an air of childlike wonderment in ... when I joined in, but we spent the rest of the evening, part of the plane ... accepted. I finished my very first crossword puzzle with Tara in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch ... building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023