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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  turns a game of laser tag into a game of ... it]!!!!!" Another 20 feet down the hall you run into one of these I ... MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... done this weekend instead of studying for finals, exactly? Well, what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At ... super-friendly atmosphere, and we got into a lot of long conversations ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  advising. Freshman advising at MIT falls into two general categories ... advising is further divided into Traditional and Seminar Advising. Seminar Advising is actually an academic subject worth 6 units of credit and has

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  coming into fruition has been an enlightening journey. The Journey of 8 ... of it, interpretation becomes secondary. That realization seeped into ... all walks of life to peep into the constantly changing cosmos that is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when ... rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  velocity that they basically exploded into puffs of smoke.  Within a few ... Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off ... this) But after stuffing our pockets full of Snickers, Crunches, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  thankful for all of the admissions staff for (a) letting me into MIT and (b ... distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins ... next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their ... that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... of someone who was pretty involved (in my opinion) during the high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  know that you could only be awaiting (all of) my money to support your fine establishment. Yet I return with the greatest of news--I have ... shakshuka, dreaming of your labneh, thirsting after your pistachio croissants

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've transitioned into elevated neutrals accompanied by a touch of fun (i.e. a ... Campus Fort was launched into legal, insurance, and EHS issues—all of which ... celebrated the Fourth of July by tossing tea into the nearest body of water

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of Jony Ive's breathless product launches, complete with pictures of ... minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  Earlier this month we launched one of our new admissions videos called MIT Imagination. A lot of work went into that video. Elizabeth and ... , drooly, adorable video is something that we love and are very proud of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  ; 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009