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• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  finally feel like i'm in my penultimate year of college and not my first ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... heavily on the upperclassmen in my living group and clubs. i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may ... one of those guilty pleasures, I guess. And as the summer* TV season

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  and shape of the wick, as well as the speed you’re spinning it at. Here ... staff and poi spinners. I chose the route where I try a lot of different ... ’s also the crazy talented people who spin a lot of props and are good at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  it into the front page of The Tech! I made some movies of the adventure. The first is the straight fall, the second is of a spiral we made ... of the bathroom. Here's a shot from above And a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  the [annotation note="This means both prospective first-year and ... disruptions applied generally to the cancellations of activities and exams due ... taken online to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19, and we encourage

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  everything went off smoothly and the other members of my club had fun and ... "purposes" have faded away. And I’m left thinking, what now? I think of the ... and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  from 8.02 (electricity and magnetism), a couple of people from the best 2 ... student volunteer who stamped my white and pink copies of the carbon paper ... . We sat in the corner of the lobby, enjoying our drinks and chatting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  view of Memorial Drive, the Charles River, and Boston. There are also ... obviously thought I was nuts. So I realize that the first paragraph of this ... Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math-and ... gesture recognition. The first day of class was more of a survey of UI ... question of how to evaluate and troubleshoot user interfaces. The one that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... alums of First East.   6. Carrot cake baked by the First East Birthday

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  , in fact, there was an O'Reilly puzzle of sorts, and it was one of the ... gave you an ISBN (for the Perl Cookbook) and page number, which sent my ... to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  actually the first official review of the book, and the first professional ... . As a result, the novel broke even on the first day of sale, and since ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... Against Humanity, traveled, written stories and had my first midterm (the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word ... is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is ... undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... exposure to the infamous world of infomercials. Early morning and late night ... listed are the “incredible faculty” and the “strong culture of student

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas ... hackathon happened in the end of week 2, and a minimum viable product was due

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  sounds familiar, it was part of the inspiration for FIRST.) Anyway, Friday ... hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really ... , so I really had no idea what day it was. I've also walked the whole

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  with a nice Nikon DSLR, and we drove around LA with the intention of ... Cormick art gallery. One of the shots got into the exhibit, and it was featured ... wanted to expand the idea and manufacture a bunch of calendars to sell. Is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  of my toys across the backyard, and playing tic tac toe with my mom on ... reaches of the internet and have subsequently discovered every single ... Microsoft, and then go to a career fair, where 90% of the companies will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009