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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this ... , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my ... procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  made happy and excited on EA day, and a lot of people were significantly ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... (and this might make a lot of people mad), whether you are an INTJ or an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and ... , and taught us about the principles of poster-making, slogan

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was ... . Only, he made fun of my tacos and said they weren't very good, which was ... other a lot, and it's kind of neat. Meara from across the hall cooks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT ... on it. In April, we all dress up fancy for Ring Delivery and poses with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  , and Nadeem Mazen '06, proprieter of digital design and consulting firm Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... on their showcase, this commonly includes engraving all manner of glass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why a beaver ... ] Hornaday's book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the ... decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of some of the many, many employers on campus today: Central Intelligence ... looking at the list of companies that recruit on campus, or lists of alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you ... topic for the rest of this post and the points listed underneath are all ... other college kids will be envious of your majestic beauty and cool style

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  years doing research in the Saeij lab on parasites and the Gilbert lab on ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  man on fire. It’s been on shirts and stickers and a variety of other ... lot of rush merch, but I’ve got laptop stickers and a pin on my backpack ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and wine! eek, free wine!) and staying in a classy hotel on Sunset Boulevard. And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  here follow the path of least resistance and attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the most normal and infamous school under the MIT ... problematic behavior on Twitter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technicalities

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... on later, when the flash-bang chaos of REX and Orientation ends. So ... terrifyingly untested (and, thus, unpopulated); little clusters of people

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  to you the enormity, variety, and grace of an ocean of more than 2000 ... video on the glass lab, featuring glass instruments, a few of my friends from Random Hall, and the creation of an actual glass pumpkin. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ... of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... , but I developed a slight headache and a sore throat towards the end of ... roommate Fatima that it felt sus and that we should probably put on masks. I

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

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  of my favorite place on earth, and there are so many things to find ... of the things on the list above, or maybe the one with the most ... the internet and photoshop ;) Good luck on the scavenger hunt... see

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011