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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my ... nice. So another lady at Walmart used a piercing gun (which requires

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major... ...and one month later, I learned that a man named Guido van Rossum

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake up before 5 a.m.; I therefore try to fall asleep before 9 p.m.; I don

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A ... . That's a topic for another day, though; as promised, here's the follow ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... pieces. The first, "Appeel," was a large wall covered in peelable orange

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... matters: playing football, heaving a shot put, framing a house, lifting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ME!" and give you a quick Toy Design update. I haven't talked about ... class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... 've ever seen. Pictures that I've seen taken include pictures of a wall, of a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  was written by my professor), wrote a short paper on emerging diseases, sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Next House: 1. A telephone (the MIT phone policies keep changing, but as ... , you'll unplug the phone and put it under your bed because who needs a limited landline when you have a cell?) 2. A twin bed with frame and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... department didn't include neuroscience until 1986. I met a faculty member who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... remove the heart of this man, and replace it with a piece of wood, that was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to ... collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... ) or the suitcase record player that daniel bought at a [annotation note

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... . Senior year was a blur, and junior year basically never existed. I forgot ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  into a couple paragraphs and punchy phrases. This fictional super-eloquent me would end with the blog version of a mic drop, and then peace out from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  a bonus related article. Enjoy! Fannin finds more than academics at ... .By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek The movie "21," which is based on a true story, follows a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students and one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... this is what worked best for me. It's typically better of a supplemental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin. Thanks, generative AI![/caption] Thankfully, we do not need a pumpkin

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• 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, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... setting up a stall about a women’s biker club. Security folk were roping off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great ... -smelling room is either: a room lacking any perceptible scent, or a room having that has just a slight fragrance. Avoiding bad smells is pretty

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019