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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  a hike to find a secluded place to pee, stung my leg on some nettle ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped ... us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since ... days, but quickly overstayed their welcome and threatened to drown me ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn ... "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration ... MIT: Where we make "nerdy" things fun. Exhibit A: Mystery Hunt Team ... entire weekend was not enough, our recent team party included a night

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to ... give a warm welcome to: Andi Q. '25 of South Africa, connoisseur of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... included discussions on everything from admissions to the point at which ... as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset ... grade each of them on an A+ to F- scale (wondering for the umpteenth time ... sleep. I decide to pass the time by taking a quiz on Buzzfeed. This quiz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to ... protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way ... makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  the new one, but was it good? Saturday, I went to check out a new ... to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating ... New Year Evie above) Peggy in a interesting or funny scenario (similar ... nice hand drawn entries... points go to a cute manga Peggy. You'll have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new ... people on campus rely on. This really has the potential to revolutionize

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the ... year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... and thought I would just lose all my gains. Then, on a particularly nice

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... displayed his or her drawings and models and gave a short presentation to a ... . The Department is committed to a concern for human values and for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people ... guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... room reading a book and my nifty-cool-non-default email sound came on, and I immediately grabbed my laptop and saw that I had a new Google

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  that I used to use Notes as a quick to-do list... Cons Managing more ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to ... gave up on bullet journaling within a few weeks. My effort level had gone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then ... comments are so genuine and thoughtful, and it really makes a difference to ... , Jenny A.), and it was really cool to finally get to meet you guys. Minus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007