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• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  finally I woke up with a start. I wonder what it's supposed to mean ... wearing a Google shirt and on the back it said "I'm Feeling Lucky!" I took ... some time to share some MIT funnies. These are examples of things that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  allowing employees to use their lunch breaks to watch the inaugural swearing ... one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  dream could have been realized. But alas, the show is only airing its first episode tomorrow (watch it now by clicking here). “Eight high schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... , The realization that if we act now, we can contribute to the world. You ... thanks to Lourdes '15 [who filmed it] Kirsten [my TA] and of course the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... things.  By the end of it I was ready and anxious to actually jump out of ... first.  Then it smells like spoiled baby poop :( Now I can jump all by

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  've learned about how to recruit minority students. Much to my surprise it was ... . When she came to visit and saw cows on campus, you can imagine her ... prior. As my granddaddy used to say: To make a short story long, this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  can't wait to watch trashy VH1 countdowns and hear English all around me ... the left. And it's super-sexy. Alas, I had to crop it out. As for ... could say Shannon is using molasses to save the world, while Sam uses

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  . I used a fork to pull at the edges and test its texture: if they are ... of me cooking the ribs, but I can't track it down. If you took a picture of me making ribs, can you send it? Thanks!" Writing this has made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  MILFORD — Jacob Wamala says it took him some time to get used to small town ... have they done, and what do they hope to do? So while I can point to ... of applying my skills to design vehicles or systems used in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . Likewise, it took a year for my relationship with my parents to settle down ... compelled to share my story because it’s different than common coming out ... go to the Rainbow Lounge. I am gay. I use the word. But when I’m at

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  prospective undocumented students about whether they can still apply to and ... 's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote that "Whatever may change in Washington... it will not change the values

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  ’t want to be alone, which is also often, I can always find somebody else ... height). I don’t actually know who built it, and I haven’t had reason to use it yet, but it’s been a source of great novelty and entertainment

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  to remember who I used to be (SERIOUSLY. TIME. STOP IT.), college is ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... about Med School A's demonstrated commitment to diversity amongst its

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  one of my trips back to see friends in the Boston area. It was one of ... small dashes of whimsy make it go from a list of puzzles to magic. The ... for it to be MIT’s Mystery Hunt in particular, it doesn’t mean the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on ... using Python and MATLAB. The awesome description: We get to build virtual ... the utmost motivation to colossally kick its ass. STS.064J DV Lab

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... semester's worth of film, but also access to three printers where I can print ... yellow ink to make orange, instead of using red and yellow dots. Our first

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  /D/F, a well-known but surprisingly little-used option that you can exercise ... Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a ... tutorials. The first week I forgot to look up what room it was in, so I just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  one of my favorite tools to use. It's delightfully messy, not very time ... You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... ? Go ahead. You wanna go to class as a princess? No problem. Go trick

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp ... and I wanted to make friends. It turned out to be more than I bargained ... distance of this place from anything I'm used to is bitingly obvious. I took

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  does it feel like to be one of the richest people in the world?' I'm way ... and got in line to ask her question. When it was her turn, she went up ... today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010