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• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and ... ? That’s okay. I think I saw a sign with your picture on the way in. Let

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  honest, it's not like I would have been doing much else back in my dorm ... Intelligent Transport Systems Lab (as I did in the spring of 2009, before going away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... pieces. I found "seafood" in one piece that Sam thought tasted like "olives

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  in an email: I've definitely felt like doing this before.... ... Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  interaction in the present moment, while not thinking about any work i.e. blog ... stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... I G H T – animation assignments. So the long weekend Saturday, 10

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  have in common? They are the only two people in the world who can put a ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  question and answer session. ----------- WALK IN STUDENT FLU SHOT CLINIC ... Fatigue or A Ten Second Sting?? you decide. WHAT? Flu Walk-in Flu Shot ... that will help prevent the spread the cold/flu! The posters can be simple

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  . But I know that in the end, for you and for me, things will turn out ... colleagues in Admissions will be happy to help you. And not 24 hours after I ... 're in Northern California, I hope to see you, too. Best wishes to all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  in macgregor so I'm painting on clear contact paper try not to paint ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of ... of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly wrote, "I just wish the bloggers themselves posted more." Well, there have ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been heavily involved. In fact, I'd like to officially propose that MIT move this ... has even influenced two major decisions in my life as of late. 1) I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... burritos from Anna's). But as I like to say in my info sessions, sometimes ... applications that this is my first free food in...well, long enough that I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  necklace that I'm wearing in the UAP/VP '06 debate. A more wishful thinking version of me. "Me in fearless crusader mode." I hope that this has ... pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  like "I am cat" and don't care about anything in the world. Anyway, we ... The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15. She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  children of weight 15-35 lbs. I am fully aware that the shopping cart in ... mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... people understand each other." Sometimes I think the best ideas in the ... awesome. But I digress.) Tim was pretty fascinating, so I checked out his

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006