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• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  building in Cambridge, and/or the live Tetris game, and/or the building that ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... up in an East Campus room was equipped with a laser pointer, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  you'll see that my 2013 Pi Day was equally exciting, though in a totally ... 's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... of Disease and Health in Society) and watch a pretty intriguing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  . Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the ... Astley 4. If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai 5. Somebody to Love by Justin Bieber 6. Do You Believe in Love - Huey Louis 7. Let's Stay Together - Al

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... comes in on time, writing last minute stories, and essentially making sure

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... Friday in working with my GEL team trying to solve different challenges in

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  in dorms, classes, councils, and recitations all have unique mailing ... group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover ... , duh! So, back in 2009, four tired, grumpy, overworked, and snickering

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  This Monday and Tuesday, undergrad volunteers banded together in a ... longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... gambling; only one in seven or eight of you guys picked up (shame!), so we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem ... . LeaderShape takes place at an off-campus retreat site in southern

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... room last year, that my walls were papered entirely in post-it notes ... pinned right in front of my workstation just in case I forget trivialities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my biggest failures, though, was in making friends - and now, looking back on ... thoughts about making friends at college. Don't It was sometime in the middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  beans and tomatillos in there. The reason this is all on my mind is ... international development.  It's amazing how things change. At this point in the summer, I've realized I have less than 5 weeks left in my internship, and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait ... takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control ... not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... with all the snow? Well, back in 1948, the Mayor of Boston had the same

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade ... just take up a little more "space" in your program): Then we did this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way ... hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... seventeen I spent in Colorado, the experiences I have had here and the people

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind ... tracks behind Simmons down Massachusetts Avenue, straight in front of MIT, then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for ... Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... attain a 98.9 grade point average before graduating second in his class at

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010