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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  ’t you the least bit terrified?” “Is it even legal for you to drive here ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But ... ”."]RMV[/annotation] dealing with the paperwork. Massachusetts requires you to use a friend

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is ... seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously ... ?! For real. If there was a crystal ball you could look into that would ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ;on Flux. You can read a cool article about his work on Minority Report here ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius ... Rhodey, implying a college friendship. Even stronger evidence is Rhodey'

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  " is like remembering a test question, but before that, "remembering ... concert. I gel my hair and put on a tie. Dress code is "happy colors." I ... -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  ="an event where you present from a nonsensical slide deck you've never seen ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  away from you at all times is a rare and valuable thing. MIT’s “make it ... it fades. As you can tell it is already fading.  ... 2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end development is like painting. Often, you start with a wireframe, which looks a ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... answering questions like "what's a project you worked on recently, and what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  . Broth I think I learned from this. There is no firm recipe. You save ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... This one is a bastardized amalgamation of random internet recipes. This

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... ! This is an American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana), a species of roach

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... you are. But here's an example. So, I'm reading this application of a ... impact on me that the student had "the magic 1600." Yes, scoring a 1600 is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  creepy though, so make sure you can still sleep at night.") there ... such an incredible collection. whatever you find is going to add a lot of ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  student. Sorry. There is a way to be qualified to come here, and that's by ... international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot ... ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  or spacecraft for at least a decade. As Lulu L. '09 describes: "You ... having each other to lean on." And also: "You can't take any other ... 't have the privilege to grow up with. There's a notion of "passion" that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  cognitive science. Brain and cognitive science is a great major if you want to ... .” It all sounds so funny because MIT is one of those places where a lot ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  give yourself a better life, what is the point if you’re not healthy and ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017