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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  cable cars. Do you know how cable cars work? One of the very first things ... pasty white or what???) Another one of the very first things we did in ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  made their own version of the video last week when I was away from the ... For those of you who don't remember or are new here (or don't care ... 'm spending the summer as an RTA for the Center for Talent Development at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a ... combining the answers of several puzzles. Often, these metas are also combined ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... MIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so ... 've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This ... Better Than I Thought It Would Be Bar-Be as the Lady with a Lot of Money

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... these weeks are usually really bad the first time around, since the first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have ... students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing ... girls in my living community. one of the floor traditions that help

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... them feels left out. On the flight, I read more of The Lying Life of ... said that the ending of a story defines what it is about. And I haven

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  ideas we toss around the office, we first began talking about this basic ... media form. Since 2011 or so, the first email that all admitted students ... got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Mailing" (NBM), the first wave of which was sent out earlier this week (more ... to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  Go read about the Big News first. (I considered adding spoiler space here, but um...that'd just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO ... gets the most disproportionate enjoyment out of the most random, absurd

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital ... on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less ... By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work calendar, Thursday was "Fronleichnam," or the feast of Corpus Christi. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... [annotation note = "residents of Random Hall, the soon-to-be last bastion of ... "]Randomites,[/annotation] namely stories of the engines revving through the day, and swarms of bikers

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  "Adventures in Logan Airport." First of all, my first name is Keri-Lee. At ... this great, all-powerful piece of plastic, my first name and middle ... view of the night sky for three and a half hours because THE SUN GOES

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and ... with the MIT Chief of Police about it last spring. Chris said: "Awesome

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005