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  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October fun because you're drowning in problem sets? Is midterm season killing ... costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  MISTI gave me a list of websites to search for people looking for ... placed in, but either your salary, the place you work for, or MISTI will ... been in an accident, and then automatically place an emergency phone call

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  around and looked at the white things in the blue room and said them out ... scared. This was my second time going to walk-in hours, again after an ... woke up the next morning at 7am, for an interview with a really awesome

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  the day… Armed with a handy 40% coupon, we put in an order for all the ... whipping cream. Despite charging us for an even larger carton than we ... was still young! It was time for... a rager? Nope, time for an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... requirements. This is exactly what the plan looks like right now. I'll major in 8-Flex, with a minor in 6 and a minor in 18 or in [annotation note="an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... , making small edits. Next, I’d look for a form I was eager to try, and scribble a new poem in my notebook. The process took about an hour on good

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  research in the context of current national and global events. For Fall 2020 ... Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the ... description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  in the eye and saying "What do you do for fun around here?" It caught ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set ... . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old ... remember most about Cambridge. As for Biochemistry, I hope students in either

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway!) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... , the guy I'll be working for is an alum of MIT's transportation master

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . The reality is that for most of us who are majoring in an engineering ... family member and talk for a half hour. Watch an inspirational video ... done in short periods of time." "I want to thank MIT for exposing me for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  last time I applied for one in their group.) You might not get an ... -sounding idiom), I no longer have an excuse for putting off this blog entry until T ... evidence shows that more women tend to wake up in time for lecture. (At least

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... competed in 2009. The next Math Prize for Girls competition will be held ... red as an apple at the moment! Everybody look at Kate! She's good at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  if you’re also looking for a bit of escapism, try an audiobook. And ... ’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I ... I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  of you waiting for the BE major, it looks like it will be approved at ... From Wednesday's faculty meeting... Motion for a Bachelor of Science (S.B.) in Biological Engineering Moved, that the Faculty approves the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  international nuclear politics for an hour.  Among the topics we discussed ... do to talk with an international security expert for an hour?  I sent ... ).  Eric Maskin, visiting from Harvard, talked for an hour about the flaws of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. It is a place where ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a ... ; distinct from an acute negative event happening then feeling bad afterwards ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  result will be an author in numerous papers! A long with UROPing all the ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014