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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you ... and staff who have agreed to take in a group of wide-eyed new cadets ... -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  [/annotation] of a college town. Everywhere you go is covered in Umich ... wouldn’t be in a dorm like I am now. I’d be living off-campus in a three ... lot of people in their classes. Ann Arbor (where Umich is) is the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... see frosh interact, part of me is a little jealous, because how do they ... ? like, isn't that what you spent a huge chunk of time working past in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  're being ridiculous and is in general a breath of fresh air. I wonder if he ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... , but he didn't have much in common with them. Then he got a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  called the Clear Conscience Cafe, which is right in front of this ... ... A petrified log! Because I'm too lazy to explain what it is. On ... Lin and Mike He in it this would be a surefire hit, but while the middle

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  out about the prospect of (in Chris' words) "a cool media lanyard ... ." What did that mean? Pros: a sweet lanyard that said "PRESS", a seat in ... , in a language more alien than the Tibetan I heard from the Dalai Lama

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... you'll be happiest. 2.In one year, a lot will be different I can pretty ... that you accept and move on with. Getting into college is a big deal, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... students did a similar activity in an Engineering Leadership Lab earlier in ... 'cool' factor that trips up some MIT students." This is a lesson I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  -- the difference in total time between air and rail is only a couple of ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab ... in everyday life? Why is Demi Moore mad at Madonna? What did Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie order for lunch at an Edmonton eatery? Is a GE air

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  things. It is nice knowing you have one person who knows you a little ... Cambridge. I think a lot of the students here are used to it, which is amazing ... . A larger majority of the work is done on the computers. I miss my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  : Nuclear Technology in a Changing World: Have We Reached a Turning Point ... Bartos Theater, MIT Starting shortly across campus from here is an ... moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  TelefériQo is a steep cable car that travels up Volcán (volcano) Pichincha ... for a scholarship to do research in Heidelberg next year; she said that ... January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  , Dr. Berkowski, is fantastic. The other day in lecture she put up the ... in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested ... about two weeks like it sometimes always is: time for Q and A! Anonymous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess ... 've ever taken in my entire life and it's kicking my butt). Here he is before

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes ... " and "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town." Alpha Delta Phi accepted me ... that he's a good orator in addition to a fantastic blogger with his

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  likely lag behind it. While snow, in moderation, is a cause for ... dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a ... .   A tree sags over torn power lines in south-central New Hampshire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... sweet hearing him talk with a little boy in a neighboring room who only

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024