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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  spent 1/3 of my life at MIT. This will be the longest I've ever spent at ... said, my days of partying and running here and there from event to event ... you arriving on campus or for those of you have already arrived, grad

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  reading is my sole activity these days. I read The Kent State Coverup, an ... that for a second. A bunch of National Guardsmen, armed with M1 Garand ... the rally, but simply walking from one class to the next, or the fact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  its own season, where freshman year was seasons 1 and 2, hence making ... things you'd find in your typical day to day household. Over the summer ... lot of random stuff: [carousel image1="58589" image2="58588" image3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  spells. Thank goodness: two in one day would just be embarrassing. Only 1.6 kg... Things I learned yesterday: (1) Sometimes passing out is not ... , full-day endeavor – but it’s truly meaningful work. Without this medical

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... of the day. One late night Colin '10 and I walked into New House and ... . After we toured, we were put in random order from 1-136 and allowed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... days. Confused? Let me explain... Monday afternoon, I was walking ... : (*EDIT 1/11/08: Visiting this entry again, I happened to notice that some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  Bay. How our opponents had trained day after day after blistering day ... trial, theater, or athletics. We were an unassuming group of nerds ... lunches showing off my skills or learning something new or laughing with

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  or driving across the country or exploring caves. Yet I was here, at MIT, preparing myself for the UPOP Spring Team Training Camp.  UPOP, or ... .  Instead, I attended a three-day program during Spring Break where I worked

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  payment at the beginning of the semester or my overdue library book fees of 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don ... everything together! Step 7: Worry Worry that everything is going to fall

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  stuff! In no particular order, here is a list: 1) We went on an errand ... ). 7) We finally saw Loving Vincent with more friends from Burton Conner ... whether or not to do it, we asked around and heard many not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time ... : 1. Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. A slim book of poems my grandma ... that stick-with-you quality. The scenes stay in my head all year long. 7

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  while you’re here for CPW, class of 2016?! We have: 1. stunning views we ... have a total of six floors, four stoic pillars, three or more friendly ... . people who study 6. people who are friends 7. people who are hardcore

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult ... or otherwise. Kate will be living in East Campus, although she is ... , '12, is a Course 1 major from Colorado who lives offcampus in an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  crowd. Eventually, I crossed the 7-foot-radius line and had an epiphany ... debit card, a subway pass with $1.70 remaining, and my MIT ID. And then I ... card costs exactly $15. (In case you're curious or vegan, I blocked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a pleasing smile. These days, I see the term “beautiful” used quite often ... insightful or was it just pretty? I took two Folklore and Mythology classes at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  things. how's east campus these days? or, what's going on with mystery hunt ... part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The ... /competition. Played in the Assassins' Guild 10-day game. Sounds fun, right? But there ... fun or useful to do, including the glassblowing class that I felt like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006