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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... to Dorchester before, not even for bowling, I decided to enjoy the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the ... are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  as much as necessary to work on the book. The book is divided into ... what looked good on our monitor came out much too bright in the proofs ... finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab ... turning off all overhead lighting in favor of string lights in the halls. Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• 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.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... . It's hard to say, really. Rick and Adelaide hang out in the dugout ... , posted in the clubhouse. On our last day in town, Sam '07 took us to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  the most fun is building, well, a bridge. It is pretty much what it ... the water level, but other than that, it is really up to our ... PVC isn’t necessarily the most readily available material in developing

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In essence, the entire rock wall is an interactive game console. We got to see ... the most prominent one. But taking off your respirator to communicate

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  , maybe because you don't want to explain that it is not, in fact, the ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston ... fire alarm. Very easy to do if you fry in butter/walk away from the stove

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  miss listening to Indie pop. I miss discovering all of the music that is ... classes I’ve ever taken. He did not have to put so much work into making the ... used to make the most ridiculous and hilarious wishes, while I just

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  the interwebz to my final resting place… in other words, my dorm room ... me in the company of great friends. I had to choose some of my very ... sounds like a fire alarm, which causes me to wake up in a panic but is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the Internet. Too much. Seriously...that kid is just weird sometimes. He ... 's office so I could rant to him about how much I hate the world, or maybe he ... . Until now. I had been skeptical before, but now is clearly THE time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don ... 't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  bezel. After much debate, the committee decided to adorn the bezel of the ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to ... apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #Buy ... will save you money in the longterm. Break the rules to maximize

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... well-nourished fruits in the Boston Area, thanks to the plenteous ... didn't return myself to Random Hall until 9 AM the next morning. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge ... up side by side in tents as people mingled from one to the next. There ... hard to let me have. At the same time, and talking to my other friends in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  set in the McCormick penthouse, attempted to create edible meals, and ... you want to hear about or see, ask me questions, buy me tickets to the ... deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Lobby 7, and it has the most beautiful view Café 4 is pretty much always on the way to class Forbes Café is in Stata, which is the closest to ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016