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• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  test. I anxiously waited and took the swim test, and of course I failed ... out of the pool and my legs were literally shaking. Y’all, swimming is hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  #5 (out of 7), and played games on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. In ... feels like a never-ending stream of due dates and internal (sometimes ... photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner ... fonts."]display fonts[/annotation] of the Technology Review and the Media ... Garamond. While on the topic of system fonts, here's two posters I saw in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the ... soul of this photograph and you will discover who you truly are.” I may ... 3948394 mispronunciations of my name later, CPW strapped on its private jet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  than a U-haul on a highway pass made of biscotti and airplane glue ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday ... end-of-semester jitteriness, and observe the stress-killing antics that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  and weaknesses, so while Marie and Sarah worked on the structure of the ... of sample calls on their site, though, and I really encourage you to ... Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... )." -"Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services", Science, November

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on ... ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  Class of 2010 steps on campus next fall, they will find a cohort of ... sees MIT -- and Cambridge/Boston -- as a dynamic confluence of her two ... advisor and his work on airplane water quality has appeared in more than 100

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  .  I tended to wear three different sets of rowing clothes, throw them on ... So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  . Yesterday was the grand opening of the biggest Apple store in the US, and ... week ago - congratulations though, since one of the brakes on that bike ... store and the dozens of iMacs and Macbook Airs they have lined up in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  videos on the Internet of him and his yoyo, on the yoyofactory (his sponsor ... I'm completely hosed with post-CPW communications right now, and will be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  seasoning is nice and they use a wide variety of vegetables, the turnaround on ... Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of ... something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  social creatures, and learning from what our friends do and taking on those ... ), and it's one of the true ones. Looking around just my floor, I see Vicki ... hallway! People keep hair bleach and a variety of colors close at hand, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it ... only a year and a half at MIT, this concept of leadership has become much

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  – that the finite often comes clamping down on ideas of infinity – researchers fold to academic pressures and compromise on the quality of their ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  wording of labels and instructions are lost. An emphasis is put on the ... procrastinate and let you know how my summer turned out. Did most of my diet ... bake dozens and dozens of cookies? The scintillating answer to those

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it's with a complete and total stranger. Most of these conversations consist

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  ’ portion of the exhibit. And then on my second month on the job, I had the ... circling that piece of chocolate? Very MIT cool and quirky. The 150 ... Festival just another of many pieces to this impressive celebration going on

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my ... (askabby at mit dot edu) or comment below if you have any questions.

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018