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• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable ... packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  that being in a fraternity gives you access to a lot of upperclassmen who ... In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one ... site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he answers questions for kids. I particularly like his answer to the last

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most ... enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... tired of hearing distorted whatever, I decided to pack up and call it a ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent ... :47 Victoriana Tea Gather to bemoan the decline of our Queen Victoria's empire or ... of Fortress Awesome invite you to their castle for a glorious feast

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big ... be fun to do a blogger wrapped of the stalked photos we took! Since ... snipes submitted to the channel. AND I WAS 30 OF THEM.   [caption id

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was ... alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  of the year has passed, and now the days begin finally to lengthen ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands ... . Also good is 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Some of us were travelling together ... constraints of our institutions? A bit of a technical read, but relevant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby ... , is of course, difficult to find at a place at MIT. There's just so much ... "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours ... will guarantee you exclusive rights to the publishing of this review and ... pandemic. Over the course of this project, I've also come to realize that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some Lobby 7 hacker awesomeness. 1) If you haven't heard of hacking, go here ... 's very similar to Nintendo's other handheld DS systems but includes some

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check ... MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  at La Verdes at 3 am and trying to make a pack of four Vienna Fingers ... not running to catch the 1 bus in fear of looking stupid The Mac ... If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010