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• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  of the day is seeing all the people in western business attire standing ... , soon enough it’s on to the next world: MIT. Is anyone (ever) ready? Like ... My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... to Dorchester before, not even for bowling, I decided to enjoy the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... using contraceptives is important, but if you're actually in the market ... Extended plan. The Extended plan is a full insurance plan in its own right

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  is it? Guess in the comments. VII -- I finally got a new hard drive ... . PAIN IN THE BUTT. Even though I didn't lose much data, just getting all ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  pretty much anything I set my mind to if I showed the necessary passion ... had rings in spades. The estimated retail value of all these rings is ... most about ring delivery is the fact that practically none of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the ... moved the street Diana: and when we tried hurling the piano to the new

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab ... turning off all overhead lighting in favor of string lights in the halls. Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  takes to do that work. The bubble is tight, and it's nice to get out of it ... the day is milking the goats with Hallee, which I just checked in our W ... forever, moving the kids used to be war (actually perhaps it still is), and

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the ... are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  as much as necessary to work on the book. The book is divided into ... what looked good on our monitor came out much too bright in the proofs ... finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• 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 / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... . It's hard to say, really. Rick and Adelaide hang out in the dugout ... , posted in the clubhouse. On our last day in town, Sam '07 took us to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In essence, the entire rock wall is an interactive game console. We got to see ... the most prominent one. But taking off your respirator to communicate

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  the most fun is building, well, a bridge. It is pretty much what it ... the water level, but other than that, it is really up to our ... PVC isn’t necessarily the most readily available material in developing

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• 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 / 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 / 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