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• 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... 'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• 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 / 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 / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  appear to be how much of it is still scripted and staged. Despite the Tech ... about the show in Wednesday's edition. But, fear not! MIT is getting ... debuted it's first pilot in December. Basically, the premise of the show is

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  Education. RSI, which is free (except for the application fee), actually has a ... to participate in the selection committee for the Minority Introduction ... Search (STS), which is also referred to as the "junior Nobel Prize

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• 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 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 / 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
• 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 / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion ... elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like ... ) than the dorms. Rent a room in an MIT FSILG. Most off-campus FSILGs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  included in the cost of your tuition is now a $40 extra membership fee for ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... the sun is coming up. Tomorrow after moving my things back to EC, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  morning shrine early days in senior fall

  

  my calling in the eye and pursue it. it is nice to believe it is true ... focused, and do all the work i want to do. in this grey-blue light i am not ... , and the weight of my blanket is insisting that i don't have to be at my

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  is the tallest, fastest, and most amazing roller coaster. And I hate to ... ever been to, ever, including every random hole-in-the-wall restaurant ... , in some context-free quote, to serve "the best ice cream in the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you ... for) writing consistently and well tend to be the most compelling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015