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• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  competition-level good, as evidenced by the standings of a Boston crossword ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  ’s expected. The book is a good mix of personal stories, historical background ... around that.  The authors have put a good summary of their book on their ... completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  , which increases the chance of you drawing good cards. This is one of the ... there are lots and lots of good memes. The reason I started playing Slay ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed ... .2060 "Blackbird" lab kit. It's got most of the electronics we need for prototyping

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the ... 10 and 14, but it's always a good time.) The natural problem with ... of interests, so I was reassured by the flexibility of mechanical

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon.

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  ’s because I believe in the general goodness of other people if you give them ... So they say that the best part of MIT is the people. Is this true ... the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the ... Ratatouille and the tungsten cube Amazon review. because he is part of multiple

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  consistently the same day in the Gregorian calendar."]fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar [/annotation], it’s also sometimes known as ... leaves and sticky rice, the former of which they did not have, which I only

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  students to address some of the world’s most challenging problems ... One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... their amusing weblink of the day with all their friends. Sometimes, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... of someone who was pretty involved (in my opinion) during the high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... counselors are calling flabbergasted that the best students of their careers ... out there. Many of the questions that we're getting are totally

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most good possible; that’s why i’m not an effective altruist of course there ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... great height of three feet and the lid broke. I could just use one of my ... bottle cap AGAIN in the exact same place last week. It was on the ledge of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023