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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long ... .) packed on our back. Suddenly, there’s a mission. There’s an ... ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  read more about Prof. Kaiser's new appointment here. __ It’s true ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game ... about this town is that it’s 1.5 hours away from mine. So nevermind

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  grade! Each pset is worth only 2%! Last Thursday’s test (“quiz”) was in ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be ... (why don’t chemists use percent like everyone else? That’s 14.3% of my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it’s a motivation issue here. There’s just actually more work (especially ... . (Also: I’ve had to accept the fact that at MIT, there’s only freshmen and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  official MIT Arts Portal! (coming soon...) F.A.S.T.: To celebrate MIT's 150th ... approximately 150 days. This Festival of Arts, Science, and Technology [F.A.S ... festival, there's even an class you can take to work on one of F.A.S.T.'s

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  evenings before. You see - the walk down West Campus’s dorm row is a (weather ... Claritin-clear blue, the next it’s all about a muggy purple. But the image on ... . That night, the Porter Room (Burton-Conner’s now-defunct dining hall

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  group of friends to take pictures. Here’s a picture of my group: At 6 ... made just about everyone’s outfit look tacky.) It was great to see almost ... of 2006 as a sophomore.) Here’s a picture of some of my Alpha Chi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  features important women’s issues, from a series of articles written by ... , but I plan on subscribing now. Along the same lines, if you visit L'Oreal’s ... Square (it’s within the Conde Nast building, whose entrance might look

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  Given that it’s the day before Campus Preview Weekend and I have two papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s ... passengers to be seen in Mr. Conner”s taxi cab, am I correct? ARTHUR: I guess ... was turn chartreuse. ARTHUR: He”s not proud of it, okay? (sighs) We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in ... nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just ... MIT’s month of “choose your own adventure” mode looks like would be to

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  - I felt like a balloon with it’s strings cut. Adrift. Empty. Useless ... quest with friends in Baldur’s Gate 3 fill my heart gauge with energy. I ... . She’s almost 30 and lying in bed with a heating pack on her back after

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , museums. Finally I visited the Duomo, Milan’s central cathedral, which was ... than an hour’s drive from Milan. The rental company gave us the boat with ... had been trying with little success to get it to sit on command. “It’s

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  tape of the movie Hamlet for 2 dollars. I could practically hear my dad’s ... it to the wall. Aw rats. It’s almost like someone intentionally put ... the anchor!! So now it’s [annotation note="for the record, I'm not

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since ... , walked on stage to kick us off with the Hacker’s Map, the decibel levels in ... practically knew everyone’s lines by heart and I could still barely figure out

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  zodiac signs lining the circular room. “What’s your sign?” I asked her. “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and ... , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : 2021 Yeah, uh. There’s not exactly much going on here. Some things on my ... our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to ... programs! I’m super excited to have him as a thesis advisor because he’s done

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I ... Katharine Briggs, based on personality theories by Carl Jung. Science in Jung’s time (the 1920’s) was not very rigorous or methodical, so Jung literally

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  Catherine’s employment of the word “roflstomp” to describe the act of severely ... particularly harrowing game of Sid Meier’s Civilization IV with two friends and – here’s the really good part – my professor of medieval literature. How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary ... Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... ’t always be around to give advice and mentorship about navigating MIT’s many

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022