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  Flowers in your hair

  

  I’m flying to San Francisco for the long weekend — hope you kids in Boston have fun! There’s a lot going on this weekend, including: Pulse: Waves from the Motherland…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  about life here: Hard work pays off. It really does. Things don't just ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  damage of 20 years of yoga-less life. See below for some exciting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  planet that has Earth-like properties. Life probably exists on other

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  I just came back from watching MIThenge, a celestial phenomenon wherein the sun lines up perfectly along the infinite corridor. Having seen it a year and a half ago, I…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  MIT is hard. Seriously. That’s why we have study breaks. I know that sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking tours of all the…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When she got back, she…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I’m not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the country who attend Clay Aiken…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  Every year, the campus is engulfed by frenetic activity in the week leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of the activity in my…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  Up until last Thursday, my only on-air experience was the one time I won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my hometown, and yelled and…

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7-10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics page: Pistol Upends Navy…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won the William Lowell Putnam Competition, perhaps the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I’d help with the buckets and buckets of filing to be done.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  BAD IT WAS. I have never - in my entire life - seen 20 inches of snow

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  Filled with mystery and people I can loveI know out there on the road of life, I

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  IT’S SNOWING a bit of whimsy during finals week

  

  stata center (center) and building 68 (right) charles river and boston skyline from building 2 killian court mass ave stata center (foreground) and somerville and cambridge (background) from green building…

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 14, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  first came to [insert college here], I didn’t think frat/sorority life was ... different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season,…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025