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• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  bake and watch weird movies and dance like an idiot and play video games ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for ... gems as, "Can I use your conditioner for my face?", "I cook with MY

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example ... to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  , my CPW was pretty tame. Keep in mind this is saying tame for CPW - this is a lot like saying west campus people are normal (they are, for MIT). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... .25 + $.50 for Nick) Erica gives Simon $5.76 Nick gives Simon $5.18 That might ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  Modernist poetry; writing vocal arrangements and plays for your friends to ... to Flushing to play rhythm games and get dinner. We left unspoken the ... teammates gathered in a friend's apartment to play board games. We started at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  MIT played radio games for the first time shot a real pistol ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  make a mess and play games. I didn't have many adult role models growing ... , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ... with the assumption that you should only use your credit card for things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  that in less than 24 hours you'll be in New York and playing with toys. Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of ... she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean ... begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  local game/comic store. Now I'm enjoying hunting for Digletts and ... adorable. Here's him learning to use scissors for the first time at our local ... looking for something harder. This was dumb. I decided I wanted to run an

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  = Production of Educational Videos 21M.601 = Drawing for Designers 21A.502 = Fun and Games: Cross-Cultural Perspectives CMS.100 = Introduction to Media Studies CMS.URG = CMS UROP for credit CMS.S60 = Crafting Comics

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  , the onus is on you to stay ahead of the game. Don't take any day for ... want to go play Pokemon? What version are you on? Ah, Diamond and Pearl, I see. Psh, stop wasting your time on that stupid game. Let me tell

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  and my teammates who are also my friends, I’m excited for my classes, I’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the first time! While most of my friends have been back in Boston for at least

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  playing wayne: oh god i lost the game this is all a metaphor. good luck ... sport i've done wayne: you've done other sports? cj: i played tennis ... feet hurt wayne: mildly. i mean your foot's been on a thin edge for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  bestowed upon ten leading researchers from four different continents for ... is more-or-less floor-based--usually money is allotted by floor, so you ... , I mean, it's actual free money. As a result, most people end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ’m raising money for the National Organization for Rare Disorders. I have ... organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id ... -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  , blend, stir, and sample for two and a half hours until dinner was served for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and penned dining section articles for the New York Times in my head while

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... playing with synthesizers at the Voxel Lab. It’s cute that old Mimi and I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  , information sharing, and networking for aspiring young Black engineers ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd ... . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-)

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011