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  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  point during the pandemic i was introduced to stoicism. one of its main ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop ... own well-being. this is one of the reasons i was initially drawn to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  the band's most popular song (according to iTunes) and my favorite song ... / Face to Face 1985: R.E.M. 1984: Cheap Trick / 'til tuesday 1983: The ... Today is the official beginning of Spring Weekend at MIT. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... -18, the “booklets” changed into strips (perhaps meant to be bookmarks ... interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti-Black Friday ads). Later I dropped by the local climbing gym with a new friend ... out of their own pocket. So, a shoutout to them, and all the wonderful

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  , integration by parts, the word "apparently," David Sedaris, the Eudora noise, M ... yeah, that's me. I am surprised and intrigued by the speculation about my ... In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... 's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:   ... -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a ... because I’m the one posting them. Hopefully they’ll get more interesting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  the people. Every day I spent in the Lab was a day surrounded by ... 's strange transitioning back to the office - a little like visiting home after ... Allow me to (re)introduce myself. My name is Chris Peterson. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... 't actually have anything to do with MIT, although I do constantly feel like the two are out to get me. You'll never get my wisdom teeth! Neither of you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to ... need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  a chocolate martini when he comes to the states!), and forming ... full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  The Tech announced yesterday that Anna's Taqueria will be getting a new neighbor this summer - a 24-hour Dunkin' Donuts, right in the ... Mountain at the Building 4 Cafe (and soon DD). We seem to rotate between them

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  't get it: the Stata Center houses the Computer Science and Artificial ... This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact ... should take very long (oops, gave it away). Now all that's left is to get ... over to the Stata Center to retrieve it (the ambulance lives in the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84 ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... sideways?! And why is the water warm??? I managed to take this Snap while

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is[annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  lecture, ask. The moment you start to get behind, ask for help. The instant ... splices to make the Voynich Manuscript look like Shakespeare. No what I ... prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  week. last spring i wanted to do something substantial over the summer but couldn’t get myself to decide what that was; i promised myself i ... yes. today i feel very sylvia plath all the figs rotting off the tree

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025