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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  , instantly, by its almost insurpassable beauty. Most are not brave enough to ... to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... -Shave-November, as practiced by natives of New Hampshire, are sacred, but simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  [by Maggie Liu ‘12, Guest Blogger] You’d think that once ... ominously thick package that included everything from housing lottery to ... regular 2-hour weekly meetings during the Fall term. Compared to Traditional

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  first day of class. MASLab is staffed entirely by students, who give us ... -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... /Baker tradition: the piano drop. According to The Tech, "The piano drop was first enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker resident, Charles Bruno '74

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  friends have left by now, and as I walk through the hallways that ought to ... *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... completely. There’s enough space to leave me trying to figure out the things

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  the Academic Expo. Stop by and talk to students about their experiences ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston ... weather attempts to dampen our moods, campus-wide excitement will not be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  [by CDT Vikram Mittal, MIT '09 Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate ... were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... . We're on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM ... happening at this juncture. Decisions will be available to those who meet all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful ... to be clear, this isn’t one team carrying everyone else on their back

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  Us, hesitantly: “Do you want to see every Naruto-themed art project ... , barely clipped down to the base, was protruded as if it was about to ... , hidden by our 13 year old selves, was an atrocity. A persuasive essay about

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  but couldn’t get myself to decide what that was; i promised myself i ... fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet. Don’t wait until the last minute to submit. Life loves going wrong when ... that. Send your scores now. Please don’t get stuck paying $30+ for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019