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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  It was my freshman year, not long ago When I arrived at MIT, complete ... -bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  of my friends graduating, I get to take care of your heat strokes and I ... I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  sat down in the chair and felt my vision go a little fuzzy. The friendly ... TIME. Seconds later, my two best friends in the service strolled into the ... there I joked with my friends about not dropping the stretcher or screwing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  . Actually, a total of 18 of me and my friends ended up making the sojourn ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I'm just getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age. Last night Adam and ... assuage my curiousity, what is it about MIT that draws you personally? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  100 personalised Christmas cards to my friends every year. I publicised ... kept a private blog, my friends would respond and comment and it was a ... I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to ... are? I message my friend, “What is green the color of?” She promptly ... like this: So this is the famed Caltrain my friends with fancy Silicon

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  some of my best friends (plus, I got to eat some of the most delicious ... should have been sleeping. 1) Honing my crepe-making skills. I recently ... campus, taking a break from the workload of MIT to hang out with friends

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  exciting. My parents drove up from Harrisburg to watch me. My friends painted their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think about applications and a mEng, my GPA and the quality of my research

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  but everyone else from my granddad to my friend says is a special circle ... The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  almost always agree with my friend Allison's movie selections, this was by ... 'm bleeding this about my awesome 120-mile bike trip with Tester Lab. I ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... 'm excited for my trip this weekend. My friend Michael C. '16 and I are finally ... for Bad Ideas.   - - - As you can tell, my friends are having a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... is magic in february one of my friends was complaining about their ... required were completely different. You could not simply scale up my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  to MIT. My friend was, rightfully, a little confused, but as the snow ... one of my favorite forms of precipitation. Nothing beats the feeling of ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  , but I'm definitely going to try to see some of my old CMS friends who ... <-> Bay Area wormhole. So, here's a quick overview of what my ... 'm there often enough that I keep spare Cardinal gym passes in my wallet (as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out ... meanings for IAP: 1. Infinite Amounts of Pancakes My friends Jamal E. '14 and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  ’ll sometimes go right back out and meet up with some of my friends that are ... music and that time when I saw my friends get attacked by deer over rice ... across the main island. In my typical fashion I arrived at the train

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  lawn perfect for napping on, or my friends late at night, but I can enjoy ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy ... to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... want to practice networking. Those that just want the free swag. (My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012