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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal ... , and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  outside on a bench in the evening. Y Cafe is a cheap and delicious ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... Interlocking Stabilized Soil Bricks. Basically, it's a machine that applies some ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  . In the end, a double-major is just two pieces of paper (each in a ... graduating with less than a #1 rank in high school is pretty subpar. Certainly ... know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  . Also it's back in Los Angeles in a dumpster somewhere. The new toilet is ... was basically my money—my mom actually chipped in a bit. The first year ... wanted to expand the idea and manufacture a bunch of calendars to sell. Is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... Hockfield is a very nice person and if you ever just need a hug you should ... . There was Christmas music, a happy atmosphere, and there for all of it was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... well in this class. MIT doesn't have a separate Data Structures course ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lonely but exciting road and choosing to traverse it

  

  listening to cellophane by FKA twigs. cellophane is a vastly depressing song ... something, have to move forward, bring the world forward somehow. Maybe in a small way, maybe in a huge way. What do I know? And yeah, sometimes it

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ocean is only a short train ride or drive away. In fact, many of ... Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... 'pretty cool', I mean this: Splash is a program lasting for one weekend ... was interested in). 6.828 is MIT's junior

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  ! Basically, everyone knows that when a blood vessel is damaged, a bunch of ... know is that this process is facilitated by the formation of a mesh made out of a protein called fibrin. This fibrin is formed by a long and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  ; it’s a big thing. So now, what I’m interested in within CMS is more ... Student Center. Holly is a Comparative Media Studies major, skilled ... together? One multimedia experience that is both a deeper look into her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  am simply only a vessel   and the worst part is, it happens all ... black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  '07 is printing out in dazzling color as you read this, and nary a good ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a ... (I know where that is! yay Google maps.) and will likely be in for a ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  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 ... found my home in a place I’d never even bothered to consider before. Now

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

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... the truth is simply that this journey has ended. My only consolation in ... year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... cream and my feet don't hurt? Hello, this is a no-brainer. Answering some ... got it at Bed Bath & Beyond. (This is actually a tradition -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no ... Michael Epstein, who graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016