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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... the tiny scented candles at Shaw’s. The big one behind it was a present to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Random Variables with Prof. Richard Dudley. It was a class in probability ... Ping Pong, the Enigma Machine, and bike lamps. Favorite MIT event: It's a ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her ... to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish ... we wouldn't end up with that order. and....you guessed it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to call it a night just yet. I got a groupchat message from Hugo '17 asking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  stirs up toxic sediment. And as long as I'm at it, an excerpt from the 6 ... its famous water pollution, making the Charles "Swimmable by 2005 ... :00 until noon. It will be in Johnson Ice Rink. For fourteen weeks the Final

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some ... explorations of the first two volumes, maintaining its emphasis on methods of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's another topic). One of my teammates was commenting on how frustrating it ... so inclined) took ~5 years to perfect and develop? And look at it. It's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... when I was an undergrad :-) Monday Check out the Long Island High Tech Incubator with fellow admits from Long Island. Tuesday From

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  facilities; since then, these have been very long and tiring days. Ann is now ... , including a neurological operation later this week. Their family has a long ... feel free to share this link: http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. It's been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  drinking ice cream eating young man liked his internship, he secretly longed ... have it, "the day" came on August 13th of 2010, and now that same (not as ... words of the incomprehensible pajamaman of Long Beach, Snoop Dogg, "He is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the ... campus. It's been great to meet people in person after corresponding with

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  can breathe. it was also difficult to figure out how to eat enough to ... depending on how many dances you elect to do, you have between 1 and 6 hours of practice each day. it's a lot! Mocha Show in 2020 was one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  ="attachment_62876" align="aligncenter" width="267"] look how pretty it is ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I'm around two weeks into it at this point, so it wasn't a sudden shift

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  progression sounds like... no matter how hard you may try." Heck, it could go ... in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it ... how or why it got there." I just got back from my shift and was like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  safe and healthy? perhaps the strangest thing about it was how weird it ... tuesday night. it’s a phase three waltz, and i’m dancing as the ... call is pickup. one tw—wait, that starts with the left foot, but it’s my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  at her synagogue. But she worries that in spite of all she does, it ... admissions. “It helped me get real about what we’re actually looking for,” she said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  does. It’s an incredibly interesting topic, and what lies ahead seems ... schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... this class, and it’s been fun to learn and adopt a new way of thinking

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... building numbers. It irks me that after almost two weeks of not leaving this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ...well, yesterday. Phew, it's been long without blogging! During this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... ). Each day begins with the 8.40 Bart (it's like the commuter rail in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... that has many twists and turns, including how she went from being "a mouse person to a fish person" and how a trip to Germany during a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007