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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  dorms on campus where you can paint your own walls and string up your own ... —our dorm has a certain amount of funding set aside for student painting projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  like? Was it as nice as Gmail? It's time for some answers! To check your ... ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... ). Setting up your MIT e-mail with Thunderbird is straightforward and MIT IS

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... when the leaders of Chi Alpha genuinely thanked me for coming and putting

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had ... find the best student representatives. (For example, the US begins

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading ... many extracurriculars. Ask anyone; being on the executive board for MedLinks, producing the IAP show for the Musical Theatre Guild, doing a UROP full

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  remember for my entire life. Plus, if I can run a marathon in sleet and get a ... ended up learning the true meaning of determination. Or that I lost three ... dorm room, and I think my weekend was a lot happier for it. Special

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any ... out of Next if you move here in your first year - but that's a story for ... 's not too much a price to pay to stay stinky for the day, at everyone else

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  lucky enough to receive. You didn't mean for me to parade by myself, did ... of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college ... the student bloggers. These weblogs are here to begin to capture for you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  would open up for me, going to the different functions and all the people ... . Despite a demanding academic schedule, he still finds time for a social life ... ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  478614235 times. 30. I dress how I feel when i wake up. 31. I like being visited. 32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason. 33. I hate when people ... clothes for my closet/dresser. 37. I hate to sleep. 38. I think I am smart

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... find that here. There are a lot of cultural affinity groups not only for

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... . At some dorms it's even normal for freshmen to have singles (most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... snowiness -- it's not showing up well in the thumbnail.) Notice the cheerful ... ", which was unveiled at the official opening ceremony for the Picower Center

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  I always wanted to be. We came up with some funny ideas for satirical ... design part of the lab was helpful studying for one of the quiz sections ... put braille type stickers on board books for young blind children. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... catching up on email and various projects I'm behind on since returning from ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Thank you for reading by Jess K. '10 ADMIT ME PLZ? by Chris S. '11 ... story for you... by Chris M. '12 The Re-Froshening by Piper '13 Alum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  up for hours and hours hating myself as I reread the same paragraphs ... excitement for what's really happening. Now, when I write, it feels emptier and ... for my 6.006 pset, I just started snapping back with angry, aggressive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not only being a whiz with anything electrical (or musical) but also for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009