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• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms, decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... Burton-Conner tonight trying to get all the cool freshman to live on Conner

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... finished the next piece he held his arms wide, as if he were going to bear

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... by temperature. You can also mouseover individual blocks to see data

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  May 4. It was organized by the governing bodies of the fraternities ... contributed to the team”s point total: Sunday: - Cake and pie baking contest ... ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to ... Student Center to Skullhouse across the river, music of some kind never ... little under the weather, but I left to check out the race. It was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  to have no immediate members of the MIT community directly injured by ... about a community by how it reacts to a tragedy. As the news broke ... sports, the marathon - a sport that doesn't even have a side to cheer for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  get to my goals” and employ the solution of “suck it up.” I for one ... nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working together with other dancers to compute moves while walking to the beat, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose ... Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book ... number, and the time they have to be up in the morning. Usually there is also a really important question on the board for residents to fill out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  activist joins up with MIT instructor" By Ron Fletcher The Boston Globe June ... solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... causes the organic matter to be carbonized instead of burning away

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  time last year (accompanied by some hasty drawings). I would link you to ... To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to ... it okay if I come by and exchange them? Even if I don't have the ... could've just given them to you. ME: Oh, haha! at the cashier WOMAN AT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the ... the liquid nitrogen ice cream, provided by the nice folks from Putz ... ... The guys from Tep had an awesome pickle frier which counted to 255 in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... elaborated anecdote about my 10th grade PreCalc class. The class was taught by ... the former to the latter, since I become increasingly aware of how lame

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  ://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/03/26/his_mind_is_on_the_eighth_dimension/ 3/23/07: MIT Wants To ... country to participate in its "Just Jerusalem" competition. The contest aims to find a way to make Jerusalem "just, peaceful and sustainable" by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  managed to crash the Internet. I don't want to lead with that story though ... , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... . By separating the data center into "cold aisles" and "hot aisles", it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  would reply to the prompt "Tell me about yourself." The title and subtitle ... 't remember talking to anyone who wasn't at least a little surprised at the outcome."]shocking[/annotation] and continue to influence the current state

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , Trashion is now produced by the MIT Undergraduate Association Committee on ... was hosted at the MIT Museum, catered (with zero waste, of course) by ... photos from the entire event (and you should go click that, since I had to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014