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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  you need to do is make sure you shop at a place that accepts it (which ... ID, but the two that I know of are significant. The first is a software ... /headphone company. Mr. Bose is an MIT alum and, as such, decided to be a really nice

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  scanner. And my job, my one job that morning, was to get the check scanner to work. And I failed. Getting the check scanner to work is a tricky ... ’s sorta sketchy, so I see the cop cars, and the cops talking to a woman

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... choose mit at all. the things that matter to me have changed a lot since ... one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... , interrogated him, and learned that the bookstore was hosting a local play. The ... One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  , he is admitted to the Class of 2011. Let's back up for a moment and ... take the time to find, refine and trust in your voice. Only after that ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  over the past two years. There are a ton of blogs that I have since made ... also the trick for asking questions on forums, which is that you ask a ... people you resonate with!  There’s a quote that I think is really funny

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  you find out you love ESG to the point that a year is not enough, you ... offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit ... completing GIRs and more about offering a project class that works to make a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  allowed me to see that the Arts at MIT and psetting are one in the same. It ... Roots Of A Tree And Not Hate The Tree.” I had never heard it before, but I think that the metaphor is true. There were also performances of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  decided to paint it. There will be pictures. That is all. ... logging on to the server at the same exact time so they can have enough time to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  that there is a lot of overlap with the machine learning class, though ... course is supposed to be a lot of time and effort, but I think it's worth ... , but the class is supposedly a lot of work, and I'm more interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... work and the semester had barely even started. In some ways this is a ... with predetermined spacings. Anyway—the point is—I’m so excited to take a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a ... I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... Kay, known as the inventor (!) of laptops (back in the late 1960s) and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an ... pitches a bit too rehearsed, and you're never certain if an event is casual ... , which is an Amazon Echo strapped to your dog's collar, so that it seems

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  is a snippet of that story - of the ways we were carried from place to ... , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... intensely unfair to my mom, to the childhood that she and my dad worked so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... it back to the my office and found that the source of the traffic was ... to lure them closer so that I could hop on and take one for a ride

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  : Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite ... costume he was wearing. - The easiest way to determine Chuck Norris' age is to cut him in half and count the rings. - That's not Chuck Norris

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  shirt size, and breaking the engineering mold is one thing I hope to ... , and get exposed to experiences that expose us to a world of engineering ... the campus life center, gently harassed a staff member to let me use his

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  argument about what the proper name is for a soft drink. Most people said ... country says "pop"). Myself and the other Southerner in the group said "coke ... brand name (and that would be "Coke" with a capital 'C' anyway), it's a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  ego, and partially to remind myself the little work I do is still a ... . Starting to push a boulder is difficult, and stopping it is equally as hard ... up is like trying to shove the boulder to roll from a standstill. If

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... , though. I know what is safe and what isn't down to the crossroads. I know ... friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022