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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  opted to stay another year in order to finish up and graduate. One day ... happened: Undergraduate This whole argument is silly. Well, thanks for ... true, i admire [name]'s heroism for taking time out of his busy final

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order ... friends, is IAP. IAP stands for Independent Activities Period, but it may as well stand for "Introduction to Awesome, Pshhaw!" (Ok, that may not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  “Magic.” Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children who have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for ... . For first-year camps like ours, the factor that limits the number of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  gave me a coupon for 25 dollars off a 75 dollar purchase. That’s like a ... split the class into 10 teams of approximately 100 kids, and for every ... Red Sox, but winning is fun and I wanted to have fun. For the first time

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  purchased for hundreds of dollars. Many of the early open-source fonts were ... Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then ... . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  concerts in the past week, for free. Concert #1: Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te ... a very inclined treadmill. I paid for my improper shoes / insufficient ... : MITSO and Concert Choir concerts are free for "members of the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address ... next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  * requests for replacement chargers, so they didn't fill my order right away. 4 ... to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not ... 'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the basics: the mechanics of purchasing a house, paying rent, getting a job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  Kicad from [annotation note="Electronics for Mechanical Systems II"]2 ... the LEDs, and of course a bunch of LEDs. For this project, Kicad's built in library already included all of the symbols for the components that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  school - I learned how to purchase a domain name and hosting space. I set ... CourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... reminded me a lot of GameMaker. Also, my dad got me my first Arduino kit for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  !" , and piggybacks out at a sprint. "Order up for Tasha?" calls an ... 2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  around for summer UROPs.  I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking ... competitions for middle- and high-schoolers, culminating in a NASA

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  aggressively push the lever up and down in order for the toaster to heat up ... order delivery for. We tried getting Italian one time and it was just ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Without the people and the place that have become a home for me. Well there ... , I can relate less and less and then I know it's time for me to go. And ... 't wait. You realize you've been preparing mentally for this day for four

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  big corporations that you hope to work for in the summer. Last year I went to the career fair for all of the free swag, and free swag was what ... fair attendee. Emily Conn '11 wanted a job in the Media Lab and in order

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history, check out this classic article ... ESU ETE FOR FOR GCA HEA HIN HOL IAR IBE ILB IMY ION IPA ITA ITT LCA LEM

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  admissions officer formerly known as Juan), and Amy, making for great subcommittee dynamics. Each subcommittee will take each case in random order ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  office will again suspend our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for next year's application cycle. In simple terms, here's what this means for ... have SAT/ACT scores for a student, we can more confidently assess their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021