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  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  backward correlates with a small increase in the number of fatal auto ... bustling with Halloween-related activities this weekend. SaveTFP, a group ... increasing health awareness at MIT,” put on a “Spooky Skate” event at our ice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer ... a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... :30-3:30 PM: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, featuring a presentation by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled ... with her. Scrolling through the original message, I saw a comment that "Dudamel is cool." So, even though I had no idea whether Dudamel was a music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  A non-negligible number of people reading this were probably pretty ... , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... awfully ominous edifice: But Back In The Day™, W91 served as a wind tunnel

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... lists, and other forms of ravenous scavenging Masquerading as a member ... a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining. You see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Friday, June 19, 2009 By JOEL TURNER - Staff Writer Jonte Craighead, a ... nationwide who has been named a Ron Brown Scholar this year. That distinction brings a $40,000 college scholarship. More than 10,000 students applied

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they ... . It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... Square and Fenway Park. The Phi Delts have a beautiful house overlooking the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... day we were there, it struck me as a vibrant city with stunning ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now ... that this entire enterprise is nothing more than a spinoff of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  other words, the past three months were a completely new experience…and basically the first time I’ve lived like a real adult. My official title at Sony was a “Front-End Development Intern”. When I got the position I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... feels like we’re presenting a small town middle school science fair ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my "suggestions for MIT merch" post. Reason for discontinuation: I drew a lot of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or boring, but, if you take

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... usually spend a significant time editing these posts, but I wanna go lie

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023