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• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... mail a month or so ago, and I was surprised to see that it was exactly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  $28 to make this a so much more dangerously awesome gift. ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend

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

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third ... let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  shoes looked a little lonely and abandoned that morning, so I went back to ... sucks to stop, become almost sedentary, and then get back into it after a ... I was done, though, I had a lot of residual energy to do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text ... sounds by place of articulation, but manner of articulation: [t] is a stop ... sound. (Put your hand up to your mouth and try saying [t] and [s] a few

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  to publish after a few more experiments. Amazingly, I've been working ... , you definitely don't need a 4.0 to be admitted, even to the very tip ... involved in a project, at which point they need to start applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... a 1,000 mile drive from Colorado to Oregon. Central Oregon is pretty ... finding a place to live. To Craigslist it was. After crossing off hundreds

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  about how to make the most out of a UROP. While I lectured about the ... . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  the green building to make a test for Borderline while Danny did ... aesthetically pleasing, and to also make them a destination rather than a way to ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By ... — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run ... the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... players had to their characters. A lot of D&D is determined by rolling ... 've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... pieces of problems to finish up on Friday morning. I wake up, make coffee ... Fridays, I spend a while at skooks, soaking up the sun, talking to people as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  a leader) of a team entails. From aspiring to be voted captain to ... , all relate to a time crunch. This time crunch presents itself in a number of fashions. First, on a day to day basis, athletes have fewer hours

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  refused to turn on, and I had a week left to make the revisions happen. My ... UROP. I had in the back of my mind, a reminder to make the poster for my ... This is a post by my good friend Claire, she's an insanely amazing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... ) by spending a few nights over at the fraternity house. Unfortunately

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  . Renaldo Webb, a Marrero, La., native who plans to study subatomic physics, is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT ... . It is a remarkable group who will bring a vibrant energy to this campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... even now, as a grown man, when I go home I'm liable to wake up buried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  truth or fudging data to 'make a sale,' as it were. MIT is a great place ... really confused but Flourish's jaw dropped to the table. After a few ... who managed to turn her love of Harry Potter (and other things) into a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... followed a friend to attend a 2.006 (Thermal Fluids Engineering II) lecture ... to survive at a place like MIT. I’ll try to resolves these common

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007