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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , Spammy, Spamalot, Spamtastic, or Spamalicious... if you're not into the whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As

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

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot ... drinking, I could soak the lower half of my face in milk to feel less of the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  [/caption] Next came rehearsals with the whole cast. I remembered again to be ... thought of how annoying it would be to say I almost did the Monologues. How ... over, determined not to trip over the sentence structure. The person

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus ... stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and ... street. As I walked to the bridge, I took another picture. People had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  mountains in the Alps and we go there to hike and be together. Usually, almost ... writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This ... tried to approach the career fair with hesitant optimism and figuring out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  that financial aid letters will be mailed today to those students who ... I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... weekend, I hope to answer the backlog of questions, talk a bit about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  that I can't help but naively hope that maybe we will be able to do ... take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  plumbing thing, and the crowd went WILD. Well, not everyone in the crowd ... to the pen section. Har har A fun Saturday! ... in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  of experience. I am not allowed to tell you all the incredibly funny ... the way home. To be honest? It was amazing. I've never had that feeling ...  quizbowl." (In fact, there may be more in the future!) If you already know what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional ... .033/www/dp1/. Feel free to submit solutions in the comments. My one

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else. Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  revolutionary technology being developed at MIT by the Self Treading Insole Design ... incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid ... be extremely useful for helping people not stub their toe.   MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  happens to be my nightly walk over the Charles River to my commuter train at ... I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I ... 'S PI TIME (PIE IN THE 132) Date: March 14, 2008 10:13:04 PM EDT To ... break and attempt to recover being blasted away by six midterms and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... terribly scary thing to plant in the mind...Because we tend to act on it. So

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it ... ="and not just Le's in Harvard Square or The Friendly Toast in Kendall, which are the only restaurants I used to go to before

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i ... what the grade cutoffs are looking like?" "I... don't know, to be honest ... café in lobby 7 used to be peets coffee, and they had the mocha javiva

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019