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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... nothing else) that all MIT students live in dormitories for their entire

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  , unhappy with life as an unappreciated housekeeper, the neglected baby in my ... was leaving my home, not headed to it. In four weeks I had developed an ... interpretations of the world. As John Whitehorn writes in Education For Uncertainty

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  settling in for a day of studying but will generally end with a group going ... . In truth, I wouldn't miss it for the world! And yes, I'll be making ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... you an idea of what MIT projects could be like (at least for ... since 2001 (in fact, each of the past few years have broken records for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  Massachusetts.  I needed a car for the summer since my internship was in Western ... ="123089" /] i started rock climbing Like every other 20-something living in an ... health for most of 2024, but finally managed to catch a break in the new

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  in voice; a volunteer for MIT’s Violence Prevention and Response as a ... writer for MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech. I took a gap year in Cairo ... . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  turn of phrase used in an article last winter -- that MIT undergrads are ... in a suitcase and not unpacking everything else for a week. Unpacking ... So the presentation that I was making Photoshop slides for last time? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  student as a student who has enrolled in but has not completed an ... applied for MITES when you apply in the fall?" And Anonymous wrote, "Matt ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  laptop. I like my retina iPad Mini for curling up in the lounge to read the ... kicked around, or watching Up in the Air too many times. Anyways, every once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months ... spending 4.5 months in Seattle working for Amazon. It will be the longest ... -facing window, the sun slanted in past the Green Building in the afternoons and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week. I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  six dollars. Yet again, MIT came in clutch, paying for not only our ... Red Sox prices. TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for a jersey. They did have an ... wearing them in. "]new vans[/annotation] for the school year and the store

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ’t just go to for the food. But in all seriousness, this event is super fun ... We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in ... -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when ... and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... out of power midair and came in for a glider landing--except the wind

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  for me in 21M.302, so I baked him some cookies. However, I had to use ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... three main characters from the film Burning[/caption] In Lee Chang

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  taken one course other than the GIRs in my major (7.03). Is there an ... HASS-D: Language)Spanish II - in Madrid!HASS Elective, counts for Spanish ... jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... EC to find a time and place that works for your interview. In a ... recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues. “This line is for the Melancholia film screening. It’s by

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011