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• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  their behalf). One of my favorite places to run in Boston with the cross ... everyone! My name is Alina. According to MIT, I’m a senior in Course 20 ... think about things like the housing lottery and whether to take 8.01 or 8

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  vacation. Unfortunately, I wasn't sent to Hawaii or Disney World, but I did ... family went to my parents' friend's restaurant in Rhode Island. If you ... It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  outline that might be colored in one day. It is even more wild to consider ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , non-profit organizations, or academic course offerings in and around MIT ... Development Lab (D-Lab), whose trips to other countries in January (reread) are ... some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  , or characteristic. Some undergrads spent their years in high school ... television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  need to have in order to graduate."]7.014[/annotation] to my schedule. I ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical ... , in between classes and p-sets, it seems to be all I want to do, and at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  or ideological bubbles.   Wikipedia took me to the article on ... resilience:   A spring can be pressed or pulled but returns to its ... changes us in complicated and difficult-to-explain ways. During CPW, many

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... she has ended up in her worst timeline. Though meant to be comedic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to ... one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to ... .C., but my meeting was actually in Orange County (well, Orlando/Winter Park, Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it ... quickly surf away in embarassment? Did you then look hesitantly to the left ... Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke ... . Relatives flew in from everywhere, and were seen passing through East Campus ... . Numerous posters in the Infinite advertised concerts, dinners, and movie

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college--but I ended up making friends with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  residential campus. In general, I recommend waiting until age 17 or so to apply ... potential of students majoring in science, engineering or other MIT ... will be encouraged to participate in summer internships and bring their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that ... obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025