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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for ... show is a satirical program, poking fun at conservative political pundit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers, Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  not to stress. If you do find yourself getting stressed, take a step ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and then apply it to biological systems. It will be a love/hate relationship

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike announced a Nike+iPod Sport Kit partnership. This part doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and ... during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  ? Let's do it! It all started a couple weeks ago, when I had an email ... Hello homies. It's been a while, right? I feel like I start off every ... you'll see that my 2013 Pi Day was equally exciting, though in a totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... was pretty sad for me- I got to watch people doing a lot of stuff that I ... run- so yes, we do. There's a lot of training and practice to go through

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  breaking a few weeks after that--it started doing the thing where you have to ... 't do that. Because otherwise you might end up setting off a pressure ... A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  sophomore year of college, a friend lent me a copy of Feel the Fear and Do It ... tell me what to do, or a religion to tell me what to do, or even just a stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  cells doing their thing actually creates a new person. That's pretty ... read The Trial, it's a great book ! What do you like to read ? I haven ... you can have a "first post" war. And like I said, I do reply to all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student-illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  MISTI makes it possible for a broke college student to do that! With that ... So first there was Peru, where we ate really good food (Exhibit A ... fog shrouding the surroundings. Exhibit A: Maido - Japanese

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always ... world I knew. I asked my parents to let me do it, which was met with a ... ever offered a choice on what to do with my hair anyway. I gave it up

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains ... chapter house at 3 a.m. Tuesday. One, a titanium-alloy hexapod approximately 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours ... When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is ... Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  ignore them. If something rings a bell during lecture, I do the ... about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v.t. To determine after analytical deliberation not to do something, said of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025