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• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... mutant army to Alcatraz. 5. I am in love with Ian McKellen, and my favorite ... paid for. Okay, going to GERMANY in three hours!! I LOVE MIT!! WOOHOO

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I ... to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before ... enough to get in before you checked online, and your friends and family all ... This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... for that on eBay or something? The other thing I have to share with you ... robot to compete in a contest, which is taking place tonight. If that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... ), just listening to the soundtrack or watching other people play it ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... course they'll in, they'll hedge a little; they might say "6, or 2, or ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  in, you're about to leave. But weeks pass, and at the three- or four ... working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... one that left MIT. I'd like to think I'm more comfortable in public (and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  of them was in my hands, so I had to buy it. I’m not sure what I’ll do ... aquarium trip or something. In this year’s case, the prize was Red Sox ... in the game, I paid full attention to what was happening, and the whole

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  already turned in your applications. And yes, you will be accepted to ... going to come to your house and punch you in the face if you don't listen ... talking about how to judge whether or not you're suited for MIT, and vice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  hours early to get ready, try out the acoustics in our new digs, and get ... dancers, all of whom were drummers who just decided to put in some extra ... undergrads or affiliates minus Lamine (pictured in the center, dancing away in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty ... to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  more places to buy cds. in central square, boomerangs was a beloved ... like cds or yarn or things in the lab, it's easier to notice mistakes ... 's a giant nail in my tire that i have to fix or my cells aren't growing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn ... plastic wrapping in one layer for an hour (or rinse it under cold water) to ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... distance from Shinjuku-sanchome to the bus terminal, except in Boston it only ... to think in Japanese in my flustered state, "from Tokyo to Kyoto.. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to ... , or trying to visit four cities in Italy by train in four and a half ... faced similar challenges in their careers. Even in 10.10: Introduction to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... being able to be someone who lived 4 years on one hall, or even in one ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures ... '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... 's Taqueria closest to MIT. Now that there's an Anna's in the student center

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  venture outside to go to the "happy hour" with grad students from 5-7, or just go to dinner with my student host from 7-9... or if I even want to ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006