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• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  From: rich Subject: LOST CAT Date: January 22, 2008 1:22:26 AM EST To ... , 2008 1:51:44 AM EST To: rich Cc: burton1 Dear Richard, We have kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... 't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... to work on my own than has ever [annotation note="I make efforts to not ... to some and hover on the fringes of others, and how there are always

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to ... fields. Then, the winning alliances from all three fields go on to the ... . On Friday, everyone took a break at lunch to hear Dean announce the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  're working on devising a federal bill to regulate smart city transportation ... our relationship to ecology, agriculture, and the land we live on. Our ... New Balance organized by Course 4, and even stumbled on a talk with the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players, Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... 't the kind that I'd be able to apply for on Linkedin. Free stuff does ... my company for taking a chance on me; here's to the upcoming school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  multitude of new tools, woodworking equipment, and supplies to convert an ... Maddie and I headed over to help set up the brand new shop and check out ... sorts of goings-on beforehand on the 3rd floor of building 35. What's on

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get ... stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates, decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  you’re fully sold on this idea that going to college is like being on ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... ’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are ... move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus ... , Paterno donated money to him anonymously, through his church, on a monthly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  promise that attacking people is not going to help. Funnel your energy into ... -13 minutes prior to that, so be on the lookout. Good luck, pre-congrats to ... building something awesome. Don't spend it flaming people on the Internet

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  place to discuss whatever is on your mind. ... decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As ... office) and will be making their way to your mailboxes accordingly. (For

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  I've taken care of all my graduation requirements. On my way to turn ... , I was planning to write on that tonight (before sentimentality about ... Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  who wants to go to medical school must make this decision very early on ... are pre-requisites to the med school classes. If you're planning to ... your major's requirements. However, if you want to major in engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ... an equality, and here is that example: Take your set $A$ to be the set

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  this year. after renewal, students won't be able to mural directly on the ... to put stuff on their walls. they did an amazing job, and I really ... decades past is no longer on our walls. this is called Talking to Myself

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023