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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... 's Tale to Terminator 2. The second shelf has a pair of blank white ... there are a couple of CDs that mean a lot to me (from Regina Spektor

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  intentionally, I just ended up tearing up when trying to explain a situation. I ... . The need to look young and beautiful is a shackle, the kind that you ... looked eerily similar to my mom. Over winter break she showed me a picture

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem ... yelled to her friends, “HEY! This guy has a master’s degree and he

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... that when you come to MIT you'll be moving to a different area code and might want to look into getting a new area code or a different carrier

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... leisure. We moved the couch to a new corner, but that left its previous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any ... this class, and it’s been fun to learn and adopt a new way of thinking ... , commonly used as  a verb. ASEs give you an opportunity to test out of many

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the questions they ask for their assignments. So here's a short collage of some of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was during a normal school week as opposed to during finals week. To illustrate ... through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort ... walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a ... drink a little water, and I start to realize that I might not have enough

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... .  What changed? Me. I changed. Who was once a headstrong, ready-to ... during IAP due to work, but I'm back, and we are going to have a great

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or ... made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost if by correcting our mistakes. It's a nice feature. Tuesday: I had a 7

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  -just- a little too far away to be comfortable. but honestly, the distance ... internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... , Microeconomics, and Thermo-Fluids Engineering). Overall, a great start to the ... distance, they’re far enough away to ignore for a bit longer. Happy Tuesday

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like ... mail a month or so ago, and I was surprised to see that it was exactly ... pointers on how to find a date, things to discuss with your date, etc. They

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease ... , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006