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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  go to Harvard Med, and I'm not even premed. But never fear (?), for I ... 'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our ... . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  physical place, to an unsurpassed degree - it's a more natural activity for ... to go between floors - and this makes a dorm famous for introverts ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle ... something mores, I think, are a way for the writing team to demonstrate that ... Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  instance, it is very easy for me to hate a specific person in my life who makes a lot of anti-asian statements, but very hard for me to deeply hate ... respond to texts. and a similar statement is true for every other item i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  ’s safe to say that none of us really knew what we were in for. We were met ... creates complications for the dancers, since their movements have to change ... while still providing a good view to the audience. Thus, for the dancers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... will be organizing Admitted Meetings. This post is my attempt to convince you to attend them. If you’re an AdMITted Student: this spring’s event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  ;advantageous" for being recognized. But the decision to write in German wasn't ... difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  helps you learn to code interactively for free. We didn't get away with ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming hours. Techfair isn't just any career fair -- you dress for the job you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... √©mon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’ve had a lot of chances to practice!). We are at Ben ‘12’s house for dinner ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  plotting. Please feel free to follow the game's progress, it should last for ... : Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you ever wanted to show people that you have some power? Have you ever wanted

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  really need to finish?) before dismissing us for the day. And now you know ... interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  closing time for it to be reasonable. Perhaps they will be postponed to ... not been paying great attention to anything except for the ticking of ... wanted to be part of the pit orchestra for the Musical Theatre Guild

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to ... downpour to ask the poor, exhausted deskworker for a tour. I asked a upperclassman BC resident who was on the waiting list to move to EC for his advice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  for advice on how to make time for personal projects during the semester ... DISAPPOINTED upon hearing this - you thought for a while that they were going to ... november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022