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• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool stuff. Day One: – we heard a talk from a postdoc, Lyle Simmons, on DNA repair.…

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  actually interacting with the people and culture of the places in real life

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  available at the rink. Fitness For Life This class is comprised of aerobic ... the competing demands of a fast-paced life. (complete listing of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  until they'd close. Clearly, the appropriate response when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. So when life gives you no crosswalk, you make ... flasher in the grocery store. (Some days my life just is not normal

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Today – or I guess, now yesterday – was a special day on 5th East. Well, many days are special on 5th East, but today was Clayton ’08’s 19th birthday.…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate Hudson’s wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of Sarah ’08, who organized…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  months of his life on hall. When the evening came, we decided it was such

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I’m asking for your help in designing my new banner. (That, and…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  engineering, and figured I'd devote my life to being a mechanical engineer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT professor Henry Jenkins on Star…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Today was dominated by the Meet The Bloggers Party – it was SO great to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day……

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  An MIT ’09 emailed me today and asked if MIT had its own radio station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston radio stations.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

    January 18, 10pm MIT Intramural C League Hockey   MIT Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they’re Canadian, what could we do?) Today, the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  vital to an effective and satisfying life as an individual, a professional
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  -MIT life has taken them on, I, uh, never actually left MIT.  See, after ... . I have lived in the 01239 zip code for almost half of my life. MY ... expires), and I also get married and really start life sans MIT. Truth is, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public ... course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  my senior year both stressing over and romanticizing college life ... that my life here would not be constant parties, trips to quaint Boston ... ’t feel special anymore?   ***   "That's life. It's all change

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  for the writing major. In many ways, I am living a double life, taking ... else. Despite, this, I keep writing. I keep writing like my life depends ... the general arc of my life to go on after this year, but the details are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  friends and hobbies as my “old” life while college is “new.” But it ... balance in my social life, since I’m meeting new people while having more ... become important cornerstones in my day to day life. And doing this self

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022