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• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  bikes i just don't like riding them. have i told you how i can't ride blue ... how to fall wayne: uh cj: how bad could it be wayne: once someone i ... some stairs cj: why would you put stairs so close to a rink wayne: i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  as far as people who would play in the tournament, I knew just about ... , and there were 12 people who would play in the main bracket. I think the ... . I made the username in 2014, so I would have been…12?  [We proceeded

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming ... players in the night), but I look forward to exploring more tomorrow ... distance s starting from rest in a vertically oriented electric dipole. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... in the process of dropping a class (Jeremy thinks I should call it "The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... laptop), I immediately thought about admissions...in particular, the ... 's not, I do have two quick pieces of advice I would like to share before I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I recently realized that I am almost done with my major requirements (as in, I ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs ... passing security, but I'm afraid I might burst in the process. (Talk about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  area to see which would take them. So I heard this and even though I was ... fleas (though I certainly haven't heard a word of thanks) sleeping in my ... me so I don't know how to make my browser go back to how it was before

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  , done that" …and I would probably do it again, but only if in a ... mango juice in a turd mug. I ordered a House of Poo Poo variation of ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... times as long. Also, because a sleeper car would cost upwards of $1,000, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  with "M.I.T" written on it in Hebrew. I think I ended up giving that one ... . But whatever, I was a frosh and didn't know how to use Moira to ... much about it. Then one fine afternoon I was in the middle of Mastering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  and said, "Go Forth and Measure." I never thought my secret ninja skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... ... NON NONSENSICAL RESULTS - CA CHING Score. So that's how I spent my

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... in Cantonese, a language I cannot understand. It was something about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think ... Logs." I love hilariously ridiculous spoof movies in which you can see

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk ... , isn't it? Considering that I only weigh 140 pounds, I wondered just how ... ! It was a nice surprise. Now, time to forget it all in two years like I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  fish "Ian Brelinsky" in honor of Ian '06. I guess I have led a very ... very long. I joked that I would release Ian Brelinsky into the Charles ... (LBGT) groups. (There could be more sponsors that I'm forgetting.) Gabe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005