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• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  school. Anyways, this time, snow isn’t expected to accumulate until well ... lodge your phone in between two bricks, hope it doesn’t get waterlogged ... you find out how sound-insulating snow is, and the music isn’t audible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  fruit; I'm usually ambivalent about strawberries, but I swear I didn't ... mother running on in the background, just in case, I guess. I don't know if ... of which I recognize, many of which I'm sure I don't. The passage I was

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  remember when I first came to MIT that the T was this scary mysterious thing ... was terrifying. Now I know the T is a great luxury that provides a ... so often don’t get the chance to experience in high school, especially

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  the vibes, we didn't have to). here, we joined Prajna and Zimi, the ... at me now" me: "she would be like you still can't" Zimi: "i hate when ... space monsters and we can't see them period (paraphrasing Jayna's words

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  didn’t have a particularly strong presence in the selection of works, but ... Nguyen’s 67-minute length film. I don’t really have a benchmark to base my ... associated with the exhibition that I didn’t get to see. I believe some of them

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don't ... bedside and drink it (I don't really do this but it's cool) Wake up with ... harvard for my harvard class T/F 10-11am down time / work time lunch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  relatively recent biographical development. I don't think I had any plants four ... different; maybe I just needed to grow. I also can't really explain why I ... exhausted, or anxious — which really who isn't, these days —  I'll find myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  big honey, you just haven't thought of it yet[/caption] I recruit Alex ... far too academic far too quickly, but somehow it doesn't seem so at this ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] no, the size of this map still doesn't make sense

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  as opposed to we-don't-even-know-how ... dreadful feeling of "tear ... that change didn't work" repeating, repeating ... finish -- concepts we didn't understand a few weeks prior began making more

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  [a brief hiatus from the baby bloggers' intro posts - don't worry ... aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... . Anyways, I highly recommend Crane Beach to anybody who hasn’t been - the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  . These opinions are in every way my own and don’t reflect Google’s views ... town. Usually, there weren’t too many major incidents because ... system (error handling) didn’t know how to fight, and it was up to you to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  ) during the last dinner of the week in Unos! Can’t wait to be counselors ... . '21 made, which apparently was not *real* because it wasn't gingery ... fantabulous friend from high school, Ale! @Ale, if you are reading this, can't

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either ... corruption; I don’t think that this is right. But you know, we could instead ... seriousness, I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with making sure students

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  doesn't feel too powerful at first but once you have a lot stored on ... domains, banners, pop-ups and video ads. It doesn't block certain ads like ... , everywhere I go. You don't need to purchase a Kindle, just get the app

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... don't sleep with my grad rat on. one reason is so that, when i get up ... . and this isn't mawkish or or maudlin or sentimental because it is so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  have suddenly landed in a whole area you don’t recognize. There are so ... part of Stata, I quickly realized I probably wasn’t supposed to be there ... through the windows (in case you all haven’t noticed, I really appreciate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  underneath my t-shirts. When I shut the book, I cried. That series had been a ... – textbooks, books I haven’t yet read but am eager to read, and books I regard ... bookshelf (if you haven't already) and tell me (I'm curious): which books have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  symbollic but it wasn't; the wall just felt empty.) Hippie the hippo was given ... don't even have to leave your room to see people. This particular room ... are shown as I found them when I walked in last Thursday. I don’t know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  typically aren't concious. Sometimes I catch myself grinning as our hockey ... updates, if you fancy). I'm basically crowd-sourcing my rewrite (but don't ... ship it from our continent to theirs? Now I don't like oil

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  Simmons has a ballpit, so I guess I’m sort of the expert here, aren’t I? I ... all week. (The East Campus courtyard doesn’t really have grass ... -inch plywood instead—that stuff bends! You can’t use that for a floor!) After we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011