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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  , then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... . And I saw an ostrich across the street from a Chinese restaurant in the ... Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  class. In fact I'm in an Athena cluster right now, supposed to be working ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Hello everyone! So should I introduce myself or talk about the 2009 Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... apply. That being said, I have to bear the bad news that we're primarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don ... and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about relativistic time dilation and fall in love with physics. In 2003 I'm a high

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  ;feature=youtu.be 2. Whenever I need a break from the house, I drive around in circles ... Designers, this semester and I’ve been very grateful to have scheduled time in ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  ’t that bad, but I’ve never been in a severe snowstorm in such a big city ... all the light. I took a walk in the evening yesterday, and didn’t really ... want and who I am and who I will be--both academically and in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  are young, i felt like i regressed a few years that night, in that way ... i've been so busy and sad and angry about everything lately, that it's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... steel container. In complete darkness. Walter watched, amused (at least I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  in ways that impair walking, i’m sorry and i have no idea what it ... very quickly by bulldozing through everyone in your way. i do not ... than i otherwise would have, so maybe it was a net positive) your feet

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  often at MIT: I could never do it alone.  With this in mind, I wanted to ... '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall ... L '25 Nina L '24, Paula C '25, Lyne O '25, and I in issue 9 of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... 's right in front of you! (although I was semi-freezing to death when I took

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF ... . In fact, I did all my laundry, just so that I’d return to campus with a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... :00 in the morning I was absolutely exhausted. We're talking tired. It was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I ... dinner. But in my heart, I still hadn't said goodbye to Ben Jones - until ... 's what matters the most. And in the end, I just want to say thanks to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun multimedia stuff in these blogs. Not that I don't like writing or will stop ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math ... , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008