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• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... . Field hockey is going great- we played in our first game against Gordon ... I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  get a B i'll be stoked. 6.911 and 6.912 (GEL) - i'm in the gordon ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by ... is [annotation note="unclear why they can't just have the lecture in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  in February. I knew the people who started it when they started it and ... space that I spend all day every day working in. Applicon was one of the ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... :00 in the morning I was absolutely exhausted. We're talking tired. It was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  fatigue in my legs. YOU CAN DO IT, I screamed to myself (in my head, not out ... know that I’ve put in the best that I possibly can today in whatever circumstances I find myself in, then I can rest easy tomorrow knowing that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• 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 ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case, washers) it can hold. According to Diane Soderholm, the Education Director

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  tired of rice. That's fine. You can cook oatmeal in a rice cooker. I put ... and in very irregular shapes. Once, I tried to fry eggs over medium, and ... fed myself for the past two weeks, and, as far as I can tell, I have not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  't really talk. I guess they assumed that the kind of person who would buy ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and ... in the gear); I found that sticker in the TechX storage room, when me ... I found on the floor in Boston Logan (gotta stay fresh and rock what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... you told me I’d be a varsity athlete in college. Now, I run the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about ... semester i tell myself i am as busy as can be, and then the next semester i make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... Coltrane, and Dexter Gordon. Odd, I thought. All were mostly tenor players ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a ... internet. In other words, you can use up to 2 gigs of web space as an MIT student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  -sized stuffed panther doll in the middle. To this day, I have no idea what was up ... the half hour, in room 32-144. I don’t want to give anything away ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  only 1-2. Harvard ended last season ranked 17th in D1, so I was really ... ="102711" image4="102714" /] 4. Boston :) I am so so so happy to be back in Boston ... is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  Carroll, Alice In Wonderland I’ve been re-re-re-re-rewriting this post ... -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach ... places in Yosemite, and swapped some old gear I had for other people’s used ... volunteers who helped make the feast possible! ^I can't find my photos from

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  restaurant you were expecting eleven and having them spit in your sushi. I ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  :15 AM and then catch this train so I can be at home in sunny Harrisburg ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005