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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel ... , [annotation note="It’s a first draft, so please forgive any awkward sentences. I ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  Theory. It wasn't a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I ... ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... about something a little happier than MIT final exams. And the happiest

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... , fraternity rush, several awesome hacks, finding a UROP, more classes, more p

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  episodes ago in the season premiere. However, this time the room isn't a bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... complex analysis final with a dark blue .07mm G2 pen with the cap chewed off

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful ... the [annotation note="FOP: first-year outdoors program, essentially a ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  all what classes I'm taking this term! I've got a varied and hefty ... class as a student, I'm a TA! BWAHAHAHA!! It's a nice job, I explain physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  this semester was a blast! here are some things that happened ... had three floors, over 30 rooms, and a hot tub, so it was a very very ... moshing, and as a 5 '2 girl, i didn't have the best time being pushed around

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio ... saw my blogger photo taped to my pillow.   IT'S A FULL 8.5”x11 ... dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is a little harder for your situation. You may be overwhelmed thinking ... 's review a few common questions you may have about enrolling at MIT.  

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested ... already knew something about us. So we invited students to tune into a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  . As a result, all campus events, shows, concerts, etc. are no longer ... activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch ... , because it was actually a really beautiful and healing experience amidst the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac. I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean ... AppleCare!" DEPRESSION: After sending the Mac to a third-party Apple

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive ... Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of heraldry was underway. This story begins on November 24, when a group of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... 'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get ... digressions), I spent a year abroad as an exchange student in Taiwan the year

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  sorted out (and has been sorted out for quite awhile), I have a few ... a favor, and introduce yourself to me. I'm very friendly, promise. To ... their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a ... . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a ... on a public on-line publication would be rather rude of me. Hacker

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005