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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... of the year housing lottery as an absolutely critical, life ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Money

  HUGE dormspam haul!!! 😱😱 on trust, community, and a cry for help

  

  HAUL! OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS I’VE BOUGHT A LOT OF FUN STUFF SO MAKE SURE ... thrill of buying cheap stuff without the guilt! which is great and also ... "]bluebike.[/annotation](UPDATE after i wrote this part of the blog i did in fact spend a day bluebiking

  • by Suzuko O. '30
  • September 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ="very exciting in the age of Zoom"]taught really well![/annotation] I also like ... field, gyroscopic rate of a spacecraft, and the angle of the sun (using ... work internally, but I’d like to find out, which is one of the reasons I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I ... ="attachment_118325" align="aligncenter" width="450"] the initial state of my room (i ... —it's liberating! I was free to decide on the dimensions of my loft, opting for

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to ... aspects of academic life. The thing about tests is not really that they're hard. They just kind of suck. You can spend three hours the night before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I didn’t know a lot coming into MIT why does it feel so embarrassing to learn

  

  One of the most embarrassing memories I have happened during a summer ... since I clearly already knew how to use LaTeX, I could help some of the ... two years of college. In the spirit of being vulnerable, here's a few

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 10, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago ... tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad ... but today. They have good shakes and the rest of the food is pretty mid

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred of these doors in the house, and you ... . Closer! EVEN CLOSER! Perfect. This little piece of the rock is made

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... !!! this is the end of the honeymoon phase. cue the fights. cue the ... i know nothing about cooking whatsoever. i've been feeding off of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... is the pinnacle of what science fiction shows should look like ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture and music. We've been studying the "griot" people of Senegal lately, and ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to ... answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of ... Beginning on Wednesday, the Admissions Staff will go out across North

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine in the winter), and I am spending three glorious days of complete ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  night was the annual MIT Club of Central Ohio holiday get-together, where ... -cheerleader-dense part of the country (except maybe Miami, FL?). So to all the people I ... who has one of these get-togethers in their area in the next few days

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where ... semesters of your undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live ... -for-yourself (and often, your friends) community. (Or maybe you want a combination of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016