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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  for our tests in EVERY CLASS! Yay! The end! Hope ya had a nice ... implementing capable lovable hand turkeys. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the steps involved in making a hand turkey are as follows: 1.) Stock up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New House, and I was on my way to Baker. (pause for information) Just a few

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  said, 'hey, that's a good term for what's going on in this country.'" I ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... the jog estimating that in miles-per-hour and minutes-per-mile. Hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  mosquitoes on land, but they didn't bother us when we were in the water. For obvious reasons, such not wanting to get in trouble for indecency, I didn ... denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not going home for Thanksgiving first organized it in 2014. Since then, it ... our heads of house and they joined us for dinner with their entire

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... over topics of conversation for when y’all come to visit in the East ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  from a tour bus, locked myself in a bus bathroom for 10 minutes…The list ... languages. There’s a joy in learning for the sake of learning. Or petting dogs ... A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  just two weeks of living here, I’ve painted my room for the first time in ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... Sister, Sister Movies: Alex Haley’s ROOTS For Colored Girls Booty Call ... Company One Troupe (live at the Boston Center for the Arts) Performances

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... for a month because I got so caught up in my tryharding that I couldn

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  That's it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I ... are for. I have to say, it's going fast. When I applied to MIT and got in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general Independent Activities Period! Only two months away! picking my classes for ... Brass Rat in the spring this upcoming summer :) this weekend! Plans

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top ... in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want ... tap into the wealth of creative gems embedded in all the scientific

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011