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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... that the choice of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" was rather odd, even given

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  . Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I ... /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... assumption, so we try to bring the feel of the campus to you. We use short

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... ’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb ... classes–whether it’s the number of classes they take, the difficulty of said

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  dinner, and then the ensuing food comas, and then the weeklong marathon of ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact, [annotation note="Burton-Conner, one of the aforementioned cook

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the ... never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates ... "]meal.[/annotation] The chances of me leaving this world because I choked on bread are

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... . Most of the time on this blog I just talk about me, but I'm just one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as ... same time. I committed to the class and last week was one of the most

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... ="it's like the difference between just living in a town, and being a citizen of that town. The citizen actually cares about the wellbeing of the town and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... we were impatient to explore Quito's Old Town. Quito is the capital of ... 's first time traveling outside of the US, and he remarked that "this feels

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  organization of the entire audios lecture. Snively wrote about it a while back ... . LiveScribe isn't the first time you've seen or heard of one of his ... crazy things we do at school and lots of the execs came and sat with us at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  East side of the park, along 5th Avenue. The park is rectangle that is 0 ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  pictures of the band too. These were taken at last Saturday's men's water ... AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I ... A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... ), in the middle of last semester (October or November, I believe ... stupidity. Especially if you're distracted by the thought of taking your first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... other similarly great pains of the human experience. Anyway, here comes the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent. For all of you medical school hopefuls (yes, the admissions process

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... , environmentalist & filmmaker Jennifer Galvin of the Thoreau Foundation, and Bina ... Vimeo.     DSL posted a gallery of the event, including pre

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pointless, but not so hard that most of the class couldn't do it. 'Twas I who ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the easiest and the most realistic. No one has ever walked out of an exam saying

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025