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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  fascists!" Not surprisingly, he urged everyone to pick up fliers for an anti ... much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... included city-wide pillow fights, web-comic meet-ups, no-pants subway rides ... summer. I checked out the Banditos Misteriosos website for the details. The

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  ourselves up the best we could and waited for any final comments from our ... left in high spirits, knowing that we had all signed up for the best ... class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  . So did I look up training plans or strategies on how to get my distance up? Nope. I went for a 5 mile run to test out the waters: My big ... I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... pulled up. Survive bear encounter: check! A couple minutes later, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the ... . March 12, 2020: After my afternoon classes, I walk into the glass lab for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several ... Pool arrives, and a dollar and fifty cents worth of travel later (that ends up ... way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  for audience choice were up first. Each participant’s bucket was weighed ... , and this was the perfect project for me to pass time between Track ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  in about a month for an internship, so I was reading up on Sound ... frog for a Korean Soju brand and it is adorable. There was a pop-up store ... way too sleepy for it. My friend was dressed up as Emo Jimmy Butler, if

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  Galactic. I signed up. Come November, I got added to the Discord server for ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich ... dinner and started looking for classes to take next semester.

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... 21M.840: Create a text for a 3-5 minute performance. This text must be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , Globe Staff | June 15, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Daron Acemoglu grew up in Turkey ... MIT, he came up with an answer. Acemoglu's groundbreaking work in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large ... guard again"]come up with two truths and a lie,[/annotation] I'm gonna be ... warm-ups can be helpful in certain situations, and that facilitators of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  for this entry. More relevant, is the new "StreetPass" feature ... , Nintendo rigged it up so that if two people, each with a 3DS, pass each other ... 7, looked up (ALWAYS look up when you go into Lobby 7, you never know

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  up with. Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry, for even more poetry examples ... happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  up for the winter. If buying winter clothes poses a financial burden ... you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had ... different requirements for tests and vaccinations for different countries so

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023