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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  spirit of vacation, I spent the next four hours sitting in Starbucks ... that visit, I spent a couple hours in a Borders Bookstore near Penn ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  D-Lab Food Fest A week on $2 a day, followed by a meal from around the world

  

  Sorry, I am a bit swamped for the next couple of days with some 14.05: Macroeconomics work. As soon as I can, I will write an entry on the delicious D-Lab Food Fest, and my week of living on $2 a day that preceeded it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought I'd lost my round, and then when I went to go put my car down, they

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  Cooking." You can read more about it here (MIT News Office) I'm very sorry I missed it -- it looks delicious. I'll have to settle for visiting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... butt in gear and start exercising again. So, I did something I’ve been ... another Conner 2 resident) walked in and proclaimed, “Laura! I didn’t know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so confused about the name of 14.41. I have heard it at different times called

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in admissions. To tell the truth, I didn’t know one could have a career in ... environment so much, in fact, that I decided to earn my master’s degree in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... film Meet the Parents, geniuses choose the color green. In addition to ... disc players, and DVD players. No, you can’t reserve this floor for your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place ... . my room in 5th west is kinda messy   I like it here. I don't want ... the impostor syndrome slightly creeping in, where I sometimes question

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... pinned right in front of my workstation just in case I forget trivialities ... If there's one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... again :~) as i've mentioned before, i took cms.307 with junot díaz in the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... taken were very much geared towards science.  But after my work in LA, I ... in Sweden, I realized what I had to do.  I called the artist, Jane

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at La ... that I NEEDED to basically inhale at that point in time when I dropped my

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

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the ... , shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of ... wilson essay on reconstruction while i was in the waiting room (it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were ... have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get ... , thank you. In the middle of each meeting, I introduce the local

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... question about the centrifugal force–wait, a trick. I knew this. I buzzed in ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  CPW. I explained the Lightning Talks in a blog entry last year ... film As an alumnus of (and occasionally lecturer in) CMS, I've always ... out where their interests lie. Many MIT students are interested in SHASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017