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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  errant shopping cart from the grasp of its adopted siblings, and checked ... its stores. Sad for them, of course, and also sad for this poor ... have yearned for the joys of cart-based transportation. I was never bold

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship ... instead of dancing. 2. Another anonymous commenter asked, Hi! I am thinking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... juggling classes, DormCon, and other dorm obligations, I had a fair amount of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... music when you want an in-between: Switched on Pop (one of my favorite

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... in Davis Square, 4 short subway stops north of MIT's campus. They get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional ... down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  Happy New Year, lovely folks of the internet! Kids 'round these ... have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... still loved the class even at the end of the semester, even when I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... this lack of organization was partly due to never getting used to having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... MIT, I took a train, which was a rather nice mode of transportation. Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking ... of Disease and Health in Society) and watch a pretty intriguing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  own 31 different teas, mostly decaf. I also currently own 6 flavors of seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of ... 've let only a month of my life go by without writing anything about this place and I feel overwhelmed and all shivery-like when I think of things

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep ... surprising twist of fate, when I opened Canvas absentmindedly to procrastinate ... when it actually happened"]prospects of deadline extensions. [/annotation

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011