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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... decide which dorm to live in for the year) is fake too! McGregor, to my ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  stations set up in Maseeh, I decided on the safest option there is: a freshly ... is the best? Campus might have a general consensus. But tbh there ... this adventure. Food is a million times better with good company

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  turned in a problem set that was 47 pages long. CPW rocked it, yo. Special ... ago in a truly beautiful display of stamina and finesse. Among her many accomplishments, Alicia has a perfect 5.0 GPA, is headed into the PhD program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said ... Reading Rainbow still a thing?) Check it out, 'k? 'k. Hi! my name is Dan

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... therefore doing one in a full length vinyl jacket while shooting a Nerf gun

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in ... -famous musicians: Jacob is a vocalist/songwriter/producer/[annotation note ... ."]multi-instrumentalist[/annotation]/educator known for basically being a modern-day Mozart. That is to say, he’s an

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven cardinal sins. 2. Sleep is a member of the set . Therefore, sleep is a sin. 3. sleep(t) = sin(wt), where sleep is a function of time. 5. sin is a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  got to Framingham, we noticed a sign reading, “Beaver Street”. “This is ... one that had originally been a female reformatory in the 1800s, usually ... dressing. We walked past a room in which several large and incredibly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being only two and a half hours long. But the opera is self-standing and ... it on loop while writing long math papers... It is effectively a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT ... at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... ; But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in ... be a writer.    In many ways, the work of a writer is easy. We

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... majors, in a lengthy exchange of experiences and ideas. Discovering algebraic groups with a friend at midnight before a biology pset is due may

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  recognized in a national math and science competition is in no way "essential ... with your SAT scores is anything above a 700 in each category (the same ... hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  [/caption] In particular, being higher than a glacier is kind of a cool feeling ... scenario. My brain is constantly screaming in fear of having to make a ... me enjoying my life is quite high. I see accepting a position in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the summer, which was a large deviation from my initial plans. This post is my

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  grow up. In college, youth is appreciated. It means a more flexible sleep ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  .) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know ... schedules, so in short is only pretty to look at and honestly doesn't even

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  look in the mirror and see a face that’s much darker than it usually is ... then having a gigantic party in the school courtyard. Water balloons flew ... I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010