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• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... purveyors of engineering spectacle–are no exception. This year, there were a ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each made our choices and organized them into a bracket: Allison: I Heart

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have regular psets, but almost all of my classes have assigned reading! A week's worth of reading...even in technical classes! :O Recently a big chunk of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games ... journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and ... Engineering! At the beginning of this semester, we were given a problem, a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band’s coveted SPAM scholarship. As those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... okay:("]pset cycle.[/annotation] For now, here’s a brief overview of what ... random like calling a friend.     Semi-Consistent 10:00 - 11:00 am I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  living in Berlin. MISTI is a really cool program that gives MIT students support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... wanted to spend a summer in Berlin specifically – it's a very unique city

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  Hello again, internet~ It has been a while. Well, actually, I’m on ... , it’s been a lot more work already, but actually, I think I enjoy my ... ; This is my first post of the academic year, so I’ll treat it as a bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location: pika. Across the train tracks, just a few blocks into Cambridge, a big green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of questions about Residence-Based Advising (RBA). Bryan wrote a great entry about his experiences with a traditional advising seminar. Here's my take

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  scavenger hunt! What’s that, you may ask? Well, Tetazoo is a floor in East Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  and a half classes that fell under MIT's broad category of [annotation note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... ; thus, HASS-H, HASS-A, and HASS-S"]HASS-A, or arts classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

      A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday ... exams underneath the melting clocks), there resides a species of creative ... roommate received a package in the mail labeled only as “Maxwell's Equations

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan ... , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 ... ; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie ... (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025