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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  I don’t really like The Eagles’ “Desperado,” but it’s sure been stuck in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda, after Princess Zelda. You know, from the Nintendo games. Bryan just did an entry on things to look out for in…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  Kidding about the annual part. :-) Catching up with my blog comments… finally! ———————— Shikhar wrote: “I am a bit confused regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to…

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. So I’ve got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I figure that can wait a few…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  As I started putting together the latest Questions Omnibus, I realized that there are many, many questions. I hope you’ll understand if I am brief and to the point with…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  ) the guys we climbed with were my friend Chris '10's friends, whom I had

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  story of the CalTech Cannon heist, the Victoria's Secret DDoS attack

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  arrests, fights -- one h.s. nearly lost its accredidation). We're beginning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all week and then get off early on Friday. That changed a bit this week because of…

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  House’s dog) roaming the hallways. But we have plenty of cool stuff to ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] What a soft boy[/caption] Oh my! He’s such a sweet little ... . What’s your name? [caption id="attachment_91716" align

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but that’s ok. It’s about the habit. I would say it’s a small miracle this ... unleashes a poisonous yellow gas on 1800s Seattle. Anyone who breathes it is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  friend’s, who left the theater in a trance, repeatedly saying “what the f ... walks  Dogsitting our mom’s friend’s hyper energetic dog. Like, he would go absolutely berserk outside on walks. Actually let’s rephrase: he

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  finally say I’ve drunk from the firehose and tasted it vicious glory; there’s ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I ... energy? The nice thing is that I don’t really care if it’s good or not. I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... to an official school song is probably the Engineer’s Drinking Song ... /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  transforms into a process. It's nondescript. minimal! sexy. But this visual ... up in random queues!?! Little do they know, it's an anonymous ... inefficiency, x-inefficiency, etc....) I feel that there's something

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

    This year’s #IAParty2011 wouldn’t have been complete without ... Sister, Sister Movies: Alex Haley’s ROOTS For Colored Girls Booty Call ... ) Vantage Point Plays: Madea’s Big Happy Family (via dvd) Neighbors by the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  - it’s actually because I’ve been doing architecture stuff and that’s ... Burton 1 (my floor)’s holiday party/gingerbread house making contest. Each class gets to build their own; the 2013s were feeling pretty funky and we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  flight, lugged my two massive suitcases into a relative’s waiting car, and ... apples at Honey Pot Hill orchards, fallen in love with my roommate’s gummy ... leaving your entire p-set untouched till the night before it’s due is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  ? There’s just no way to tell!” The seniors all clammered, “There’s no need to stress, You’re on pass/no record, and it’s just one test!” (“http ... tried not to drown. But if you’re like me, your attention span’s shot, So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  might help. Me: Probably. So my immune system’s always been a bit shoddy ... from a friend a few weeks ago during a different contamination: Hey, how’s ... it lightly, Theo’s been putting in some major overtime this semester. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008