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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I’ve been working all week…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  (Second Life) International development AAAS fellow at USAID (UMass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes ... first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... , that there won’t be another time of my life that’ll be like this, once

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  preparing to miss it, I know I was right. Big transitions in life aren’t only ... their apartments, or coming back for certain events to talk about life ... me. I'm excited for bigger, broader parts of my life too. Everywhere I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  plans for college life - what course I wanted to be, what dorm I wanted to ... myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find what I want to do with my life, how will I go about achieving it? Will I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  thought about life. I thought about space, politics, and the new vegan place ... like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than ... , overlap each other, blot out the sun, and consume my entire life for a few

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  my room, imagining my daily life at MIT, trying hard not to fall in ... ephemerality of life and it's prospects affect all of us and it crept up on me ... life's purpose. Here's an excerpt from my journal on that night: "And

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But we have wacky (modern? postmodern?)…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  thought about Greek Life, nearly every pledge I've met this year has said ... 're curious about Greek life, it's the best time to check out the different ... life guidance to name a few. 10. Don't plan out your whole CPW, go where

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  : although my "day in the life" was in fact a typical Tuesday or Thursday this ... 's quite an active social life on the weekends. There are about a zillion ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... cook together and go to Target (married life! it is exciting!). We also ... college admissions and life at my internet home, which, contrary to popular

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... follow: indeed, there will be times when life is particularly rough, and it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  most difficult thing i've ever written in my life. it's about suicide and ... cultural life of suicide: observing care and death at mit" and the file is ... something bewildering and not knowing what your life means in the absence of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  who dreams with me of a blissful life on a boat in neutral waters where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  the following lessons about life: Focus on the shot you’re lining up ... don't quite hit the target. There are doh! shots in life. The trick is ... Treasures @ MIT: Pistol by Natnael G. '15 Life Lessons From Pistol Class by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015