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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  and said, "Go Forth and Measure." I never thought my secret ninja skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... on different gear settings Basically, I used my old roomate as a

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  Wow, most exciting/eventful two days ever. I'm very sad to say that 2 ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all ... this competition. Bryan and I had the pleasure of spending pretty much

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it ... e-mail from Dr. Jean-Francois Hamel, my 10.28 professor, who I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... . (Mind you, I'd recently taught my son to say "Miss April, you are so ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  !! (I totally felt like Pat Sajak as I wrote that ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they allow me to take photographs. I should ask my classmates sign photo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... at my high school, so I joined my friend and only other female teammate ... all-male mentors. Then, Ariel and I actually went back to our own high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state ... Scotland might look like.”  So I posted a picture of Paterson Falls flanked ... that up. I received many a DM along the lines of, “woah since when were

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was ... ballpit. What I needed was supplies to make pies, something to hold the food, a sacrifice, and time. I sent out the dormspam. [caption id

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my ... more spice to it. So, back in sophomore year, I thought it would be cool

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The ... .[/annotation] There are so many people here whom I love, and whom I have no clue when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes ... documentation, bottom right.   ——   But, no finals meant I was free ... on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  thing I’m all bundled up though, with a beanie and down jacket. 9 ... :00: OK, so I woke up later than I intended, so my training session was cut short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015