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• 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

  

  minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  Back in September, when Shuli introduced the baby bloggers, they ... ." This is true; the registrar provides state-by-state data on how many students attend MIT from each state in the US, so knowing that number is not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... time has taken on a new form. From the second my head lifts from the pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is ... yarn, and restocked the fridge. Though my physical surroundings are cleansed, I've just now started to tackle the real disaster — my computer

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a ... grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally ... , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art lottery that ... very strongly in the 1960s culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what ... a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... glide slowly along the planet’s surface. The quivering black dots on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a very busy one here at MIT Admissions! This week, The Tech, MIT's ... for Early Action.   Early action applications on the rise

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past ... that the FLX could test our leadership and problem-solving abilities. But

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I just realized that you can take the Tech Shuttle straight from Kendall ... . *blushes* Last year, I posted Taiwanese pop songs to "encourage" the EA and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  myself *points at the banner* (perhaps bringing a stuffed penguin with me ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the world!), there will be an opportunity to relive CPW through the various

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the ... . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the school year, and then worked the summer between high school and college. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all. That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started doing theater at MIT was because the Musical Theater Guild was performing Star Wars Trilogy: The Musical Edition fall of my freshman year - the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008