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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... looked like from MY point of view: This picture really doesn't even do ... ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  ...) "What in the hell am I doing here?" It was a beautifully absurd MIT moment ... was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  testing center by noon, and I was a little lost. Arrive late. Do not pass ... completing 2 essays, the math section, and a verbal section, I am offered to do ... Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more ... visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  HTML than I do -- bummer. After that, most of us went to bed. A certain ... (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate ... .") Their wedding took place in Bellevue last Saturday, and was a bittersweet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  IAP as a lesson in what not to do. I overcommitted myself, took on too ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... just scroll a Harvard Great Books class syllabus or something if you want

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  applying for [annotation note="global teaching labs, a MISTI program that ... UROP research ultimately won out. Still, I felt like I needed a break, a change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ... getting myself into. The syllabus sounded interesting, and I wanted to do ... art is also a history of agriculture, marking humanity

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... pet frogs and a powerpoint presentation. This year I'm sharing with you ... opportune gifts I've gotten was a small plastic aquarium, from one of my best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  others simply joined a theater group and learned by doing. I asked some of ... seem, MIT has a thriving student theater scene. Though MIT theater is not ... -league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  place really like? I was there to teach a renewable energy course at ... , circuit-build, and code—culminating in a solar-powered night light. The project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  As a person who hails from a land devoid of seasons, I consider it my ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... : Complete by 2000 The mission was scheduled to begin at 1800, with a tight

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... carry over were the four books i was using as a laptop stand, so i went ... a proper one, so i just kinda put something together in a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  doing essentially nothing (I'm @ing myself), other MIT students have hit ... stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... will conflict. That is a far cry from the "reading period" of one day we

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... clunkiness to your username. Say your username out loud a few times to check ... , academic papers, etc. "Choose a username that you won't be embarrassed

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There's homework, lab ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  without a certain comforting character for those of us old enough to remember videotapes - it was, at the time, a major production. It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011