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• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like ... entry, Mitra and I'll probably be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, preparing for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  , embrace serenity with 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and small amounts of argon ... deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other ... working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ) putting on ALL of my beanies, which is a lot of beanies if anyone asks ... dish, folks doing impressions of upperclassmen, and we just finished a

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... friend Kevin upon learning of this: "That's not fair." Many schools and ... 've asked for old computers and furniture from a number of such entities

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... , and I'm very grateful for being able to wholly embrace a few months of ... matter? to be fair, the few on-campus months of my freshman year were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... and that spending excessive amounts of time with petri dishes full of ... , and manage to look awesome every day when they show up (on time!) for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  a Guitar Hero guitar (that's the point of Guitar Hero), and if anyone ... key, literally anyone can play a (simple) set of chords and solos! I ... groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  befell us, and on top of all of that, it seemed like our classes decided to ... some of you, and we Bloggers also met each other--most of our interaction ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... on TV, part of the barge actually went up in flames. Remember, you saw ... barbecue. I don't like taking pictures of myself while eating, but I don

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  on my bs and set the bar high for what I should aspire to be- the ones ... could write about how much I long for the usual hustle and bustle of MIT ... - and proud- of how much that has been thrown my way that I’ve taken in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  ..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely ... until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2 ... seen her brain on the ultrasound, and it is already quite gyrified, so I ... Crazy Cart parts so that it will drift and go faster and do all kinds of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation ... ; recommendations will need to be on paper and mailed to the admissions office. We ... their own letter and not answer the questions on our form. We just ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  Lab is still under construction and will only open near the end of the ... did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first-hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  . (And if you haven't registered yet, please do so using one of those ... , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  . It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a ... .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  mathematical concepts as "puppies." "Alright, so then we factor this puppy and find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  Seems very quiet around here today. The students are all on Spring Break, and somehow it feels like the whirlwind that surrounded the mailing of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005