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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an ... What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was ... time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  , at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... tell you? best birthday ever, right?), we headed off for breakfast in our ... Center) to build an In-N-Out, which in my humble opinion is a VERY SAD

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  ! It’s in a week, hurray! Come with an open mind. Meet new people, soak ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... exhibition explores major figures in twentieth-century Europe, from late

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense, maybe it’s an underrated emotion. We devote so much towards considering

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  floor except for being the person who stores the vacuum in her room, and ... ;*#!$ with your head. Anyway, I don't really have time for a whole entry, but ... ." Over winter break I stumbled across an awesome gift item that reminded me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and ... years since I had been back in Loop, a hall I had lived in for a semester ... its work or its academics, but for moments where I can sit in someone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  dressed in shorts and aloha shirts, we were… rather ill-prepared for the ... sticks, retrieved one of the B2 fake lei, poked holes in the head for ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  good read for the amateur type theorist or functional programming geek ... . Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle ... their domains. Stephan, on the other hand, has indubitably been an EECS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 ... who, for the first time in the history of the blogs, will be TWIN ... shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... still rolling full tilt into the spring. The registration deadline for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . That's ~22.5k new cases, with an average response, from a human, in ... waiting patiently for something, and even harder, arguably, to distract ... friends and family, or whatever else may be keeping you from engaging in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  useless in the kitchen, I’m something of an artist, myself. Jesus CHRIST ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I got an email. We noticed you filled out the interest form, it said, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... Archive. Check out an excerpt: The Internet Archive has the ambitious goal of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  hand, I’m gonna have an amount of time with myself that I haven’t had in ... these elements; for those clips I've added content notes to warn you in ... community in and around Haight-Ashbury to capture not only an iconic cultural

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  reasons. This post was really just an excuse for me to thank not only the ... Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation ... (only two of whom knew each other) living in four different time zones and

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  brought in a bunch of ringers for other floors and let them destroy the ... their cone. Rock. Anyway, we went 0 for 4 in our games yesterday, with ... If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  look like if you were an MIT student and went to the North End. Enjoy!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009