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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  worry about getting run down by bicyclists who are, as far as I can tell ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an ... simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  suddenly felt very old. To add to this, I have to declare a major by April ... , in some cases!) to work, a task made difficult by non ... enough to sway me 5. AND we get them for free when we declare. Course 7

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... up and started to get ready. If you have never built a big project, you ... happy to let us do), get the right drill bit, and get the right screws (we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where ... practices. Finally, we need to combat problems like obesity by examining a ... added this to my “10 reasons why I love MIT”: the lectures! We get to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  decided to make use of my aloneness by putting Hell Above on full blast ... couldn't get over how beautiful she was. And how I was...attracted to her ... I would listen to around this phase. 2014 Forest Hills Drive by J

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... exercise and to eat and to get enough sleep. And I know that people have ... . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room

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

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... considered. I have to get back to my readings, but hello from Detroit, and ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to see if he/she has posted recently. You'll also get streamlined

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :) ... in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do ... , except I never got the chance to dye it, so I had to get tattoos instead

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

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

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the world!), there will be an opportunity to relive CPW through the various

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... Portraits by sending out countless emails; or rushing to the office late at ... 's book, but of course if you want to find out you'll have to stop by our

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... 't get to walk in 2021 for my SB, I did get to walk in 2023 for my SM ... saying this."]“difficult to harness and leash” (because he gets too excited

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021