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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  ) and February of this year. Last semester, on a whim, I decided to ... positive light, praising it as a vehicle for women to talk about issues that ... sexual assault. Others have contributed to the production by making heart

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in it!" "What?" "Alright, just move back a little." "Sam, somebody's going to step on your camera if you leave it there." "Okay, I'll put it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... 's almost therapeutic, getting a good stretch with a great view. And being "far" from campus forces me to plan ahead rather than fall into a bad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... through action. It is good to know where the moon is, but you’ll never get ... aspirational future. Except that isn’t quite correct. In choosing to take a year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  . Q. I'll provide a country and its largest city by population. You ... a decision? If so, what are your remaining questions? What factors are ... you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  hot sauce manufacturing company, to obtain a perfect score on Pacman ... . (Okay, not really, but I feel like a childhood with his name had to have ... . * "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin. * McDonald's plans to open 20

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a silly billy who came here to make some bloggies"[/caption] [caption

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show ... individuals—-to give life to words on a page. This is my experience from

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  . there's really just that element to a live performance—maybe it's knowing ... something you use to eat a meal at a dining hall. people who live in dorms with dining halls are required to purchase a certain number of meal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  campus to give a lecture next week, and I'm trying to get him to be in the ... . Why? It's a fun art project. It's tradition at this point, and getting ... decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator (donated to the Museum by MIT ... everyone likes the panoramic photos! This picture was taken by Daniel '10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great ... should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I'm trying to get over this feeling). The feeling that I shouldn't blog until

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... online event hosted by the famous Mollie (a.k.a. molliebatmit), a 2006 ... joined by Christina J, a junior from SoCal. The event (exclusively for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align ... , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Mail Date: March 11 Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy stressful time.

  

  As you've probably read via the homepage, Friday, 3/11 is our goal. If that slips for any reason, I'll let you know. Less than a week until I get to shave... NICE Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022