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• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my ... exactly where I've put things even if it's messy and out in the open and not ... face paint. It was always untidy to me, the way it looked just icked me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  since i got home 19 days ago, i've been... playing the new animal ... "]stifling[/annotation] long island household. the game's release is almost prophetically convenient with respect to the current situation we all find ourselves in. if

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this question a lot over the last few weeks. And rightfully so, it's really been a ... not get easier through the years. Here I am, a junior (crazily enough

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... ’m living in an all-female house (the Delta Phi Epsilon house!!!) across the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... awake to hang out with. The only time when everyone seems to be asleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  with their summers, I solicited updates from the French House mailing ... , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... -inch refracting telescope was the second largest telescope in the world ... astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  -ray room while wearing a paint-stained grey sweater and sweatpants. The ... Sam to go with me. The exchange went something like this: Me: What are ... laundry. We carried our dirty clothing to the laundry room dressed like this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I ... the class of 2012, there has always been one elusive item that confused me: #5: Understand the true meaning of IHTFP. The five letters of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of 2015 about something you should be thinking about over the next few days ... was the eldest child, so I was making things up as I went along. I knew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... apparently represent the largest college applicant pool ever nationwide. As I understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... that he intimidated the professors on his thesis committee by showing up ... the time, donuts and coffee would be served at a 10 AM thesis defense

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of anxious students and family members who are going through the college

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research ... fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and you save the world. That isn’t how it turned out, though. I started the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I ... carry me. But sometimes, the Tech Shuttle is so far from the nearest stop

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023