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• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... 's phone at: finding things on maps, being good looking, etc. 2) Because the ... the door, especially while I was napping. 4) An earlier version of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  that they kept refilling over the course of the meal…SOO GOOD.” “We ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x ... students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I ... . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a ... threads, I have felt very good about our blog community and the ability to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of ... , then called the office and was driven the rest of the way by a kind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the ... to say that this is the bane of my existence this semester. I know this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... NJ. The Central Jersey meeting went well that night; nothing out of the ... of my childhood on the Jersey shore. The people in New Jersey are some

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United ... Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and ... Dome as a medium of art, commentary, and celebration. The Dome has been

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start ... , and I figured some of you might be wondering what I'm up to the summer ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... figured I would make the best out of it. i introduced myself to the head ... soup, but I can never remember which. And I generally steer clear of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos ... ...making a video. Filming Spoiler alert: most of the video is computer-generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2, which Matt's friend Ankur '03 is on. I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , allowing for a certain amount of lounging during lecture. The desk is a bit ... the shear enjoyment of it. Unfortunately, sitting in the seat is not as ... pole that sits in front of the chair. It has enough writing room for even

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  .004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things ... one of the songs ("I Belong to You") that I really liked, so I sat down ... your enjoyment, a video of me playing the clarinet solo from Muse's new

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... off bags, then went right to the venue for an afternoon of sailing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your ... lathe and mill), Blacksmithing (!!!), and The Art of Negotiation ("so ... started at the very end of fall semester. MIG welding was a pre-requisite to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting ... .   In Shanghai, there was a Chinese characters version of The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  ) plays and joins the hunt every year in the spirit and name of "having fun." But it was comprised of very few MIT students (I was 1 of 2, the other ... /co-workers. (another interesting tidbit: half of our team can probably be seen in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook ... . During my CPW in April 2003 (wow), I took some photos of all the madness ... everyone in the entire office is reading thousands of applications and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... for a sweet price, so I'm now the proud new owner of a "Real Camera." I know (knew?) absolutely nothing about cameras so I put in the effort of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010