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  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  whose lives you get a glimpse into. A round of applause for the champs ... treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  "got into MIT" on 12/15? boiiiiii Here's how I kept track of smaller ... the most aesthetic of platforms. Sigh. Combining multiple facets into ... navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a lackadaisical pace, gazing around at the trappings of academia and stopping to ... of having a paycheck. The undergrads? We walk like the loch ness

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... list some of the fears you may have (which I had) about going to college

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of crufting (see: crvfting) is an important part of daily life at MIT. Although ... that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... all the dimensions of rage, or resentment, or joy, or grief, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011 ... about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  being on the cover of WIRED. You own. And, more importantly, you give me ... As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking member of the Kult of Kamen. One of the (many) things Dean Kamen has said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  excellent. It demonstrated, to audience members, the importance of a conductor ... , vivacious, and inspiring Venezuelan conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  readership of each entry decays pretty rapidly. The ten most recent posts have ... main page, you can find it two places: the personal archive of the ... colorful navigation bar at the top of this page. That's one of the great

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... find out whether or not certain friends of mine - from across the nation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  thing GEL taught me that I talked about was the importance of ... . Some examples include the importance of visioning and interpersonal ... Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  into finance right out of undergrad. Some are pre-med, devoting like the ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  like investing 20+ minutes of your life into watching this video (even ... I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  syllables of your preferred interjection/expletive pairing. My stomach ... the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025