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• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... -birthday party in his office. The preparations began last Wednesday night. My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... bathroom wafting overhead for six hours, the guy in front of me reclining into my spleen, the guy on my right bathed in eu d'blah-blah-YOU'RE ON AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... have learned the basic required material and will be in upper ... website, and say that if you send me your contact info I can put you in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  actually written in English, or that other people could actually understand ... , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing ... brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT? A NERD? Why, I've never been called a nerd in my life! Good heavens

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his ... me look bad. =P I've copy-pasted all his answers into this post, in ... mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  hesitant about seeing good old Clay in concert. I mean, look at this: Now ... , sam.mitblogs.com is in their browser history and this is my first time ... quickly surf away in embarassment? Did you then look hesitantly to the left

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... update 7:05pm EST) Am I there yet: Yes! Hours in the airport: ~17 Hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... in these lab hours, since there’s always someone right there to answer

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  last semester in [annotation note="a product development capstone class ... research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  something that worked in 36 hours? Were we expected to sleep during those 36 ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the ... ’s refining process. All in all, each challenge was more suited to advertising

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  immerse themselves in the habits and cultures of their host hall and send ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... first semester in MIT was over. Since then, I’ve been with my aunt and her family in North Carolina. We’ve been visiting relatives, eating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for ... -page tome emblazoned "MIT CPW" in bright tangerine and maroon block type ... without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I ... 's difficult if you want to eat in the dining halls every night - you'd probably ... dorms have at least one kitchen, though, and in places like Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a ... become the best statistician in the world may try to take every statistics ... challenging classes like 6.7800 in their freshman/sophomore years. All these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  Aaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes ... pushed me toward 21E in the first place and to taking media studies more ... meanings, clever wordplays that I could include in my raps. I even made a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023