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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in ... ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  said. I can say this from experience. It's a lot of fun; don't miss out. ... Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad ... where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• 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

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks ... !" "Hell?!" says the man. "But, Satan! I thought I was already in hell. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... Observatory. There, I learned that Real Science can also be ugly, although

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  how I should've done things differently. I guess I’m not alone in this ... “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I wrote some bullshit about how I wanted to capture the complexities of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  know I can only be deeply invested in so many communities, and that I ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... 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

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  (and trying to decide if I can make the hurdle over the guy sleeping in ... the beginning of the rest of your life. I know that when I sent in my ... Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  expletives (that I can't post on the blogs) with my dad. I earnestly hope that ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... original. My second UROP I started in Summer 2006, and it was undeniably the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  learning how to pronounce German consonants from an mp3 file. Now I can ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... term; I've always loved writing music and I can usually pick up theory

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  realized just how thoroughly this hack was done. I'm sure there's at least ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to ... modeling for Infinite in the past. I thought it would be pretty casual, so I ... with the fashion world, I didn't realize how much work goes into walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen ... is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students ... was an amazing part of the Terrascope experience. I never realized how ... things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... period, but I strongly suggest you submit your application well in advance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  similar in these ways but I hardly ever find anyone that I can look up to ... how sci-fi can impact me and my worldview. I attribute passing many AP ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... in admissions (‘twas the season) and doing whatever my heart desired. I ... that occurred, as everyone in WILG seemed to start a project over IAP (I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat ... joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012