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• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzles and some negotiations over the size of the one that we would be getting, we had one picked out and ready to order. The first day was a huge ... for. A group of six of us worked for most of the evening and didn’t call

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  my room, the smell of rush burgers and cigarettes that I never smoked, the sound of loud music reverberating through the halls, and the soft ... me as I cried on and on about failing my first class, the desk workers

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those ... Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after ... showcasing the culture, talent, and innovation of each dorm, while also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  expected to come out of my first year feeling completely changed. And yet I ... PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and ... first, I started typing this post a few minutes before midnight and now it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  iterating on the design and re-making some of the parts"]10[/annotation] mold halves to CAD, CAM, and CNC. We split the work between the five of us ... first, under Josh’s instruction. He kept testing the limits of how fast

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... impatient and consumed the rest of the lollipop in two swift chomps. Freedom ... for about an hour, we went over, stood up in front of the crowd, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... Harris. Other times, another kind of life lesson comes from the calm and ... , but I would say that most of us enjoy the challenge and like to “ignite

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  problems, I could barely do any of them without first looking at the solution ... problems. And all of the 6.042 staff are saying that most students who do ... about the idea of being the head engineer and running up to my boss after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  you would walk down the corridor on the first floor and then go up the ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  , and the biggest threat of all: herself. Celeste makes it with a limited ... . Aside from the regular cast of spikes and bottomless pits, there are ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... of the entrepreneurs that will be featured on the show. And so here I ... travelling on the bus between Boston and Philly. One of them I wrote at  a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  would pick me up on the other side. Of course, I'm a worrier, and I got ... as all hell. That day, and the week of the Exodus in March, are the ... , during a pandemic, during the first week of school? Surely it could not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  'm not famous for being a rockstar. :-) First, the "rockstar" bit. We had ... comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  yesterday. I watched the first 80 minutes of regulation play in my apartment ... possession of the ball. During PKs, I heard an Italian trattoria erupt and ... staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  the brink of the end of my time here at the Gymnasium, and there are a ... miss the crystal flakes of snow that fall lightly to coat the streets and ... hour super lectures on the biology of DNA and chemistry of petroleum. 7

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  and lost. This was probably one of the best learning experiences of my ... race isn't the end of the world. I got my first B+. This in my opinion ... have received a C+. I had a lot of fun. One of the things that I feared

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to ... nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my ... ’m in a weird purgatory of majors. Hmm calibration implies the existence

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  harness out of elastic bands and O rings:  Making the harness required ... length of a forearm and the height of two mugs.”  Tulle was kind of ... cut, hemmed, and attached a large rectangle of the tulle to another

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022