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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business ... last year for the commencement of the Class of 2011. And it's echoed in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates ... the coveted 3k score within her first night of playing. [caption id ... same idea! She draw this beautiful custom sticker of the favored gnome

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... large amount of smoke coming from behind one of the buildings. Not sure of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC's premiere of the show in 10-250, Ankur '04, shared some of his thoughts and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  , except that he vastly underrates both Galaxy Quest (one of the best movies ... better than two stars). Now, Roger Ebert didn't like "War of the Worlds", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible ... decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with STEM maker culture (although I’ve had plenty of immersion with the arts ... the additional component of technology. Instead of traditional

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... speech from the president of the MIT Class of 2020, Nacho Nwana. Though it's been a long ten days since the video was posted, it encapsulates a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  ://youtu.be/M-zuz_nZhGY Details: I filmed this with my phone, balanced precariously on the edges of ... with my tuition. Most of the voiceover was recorded in one take, somehow. I got most of the bags from the Target in Central Square, as well as

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the ... takes the standard deviation of a set of numbers. Which really isn't cool ... to indent the condition of my else command." So there. And now, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I probably won't forget anything about the state of American Civil War medicine ... " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... , "Whoa, one of the girls in the third photo from the top is wearing a ... .mathcamp.org/hunt/2003 www.mathcamp.org/hunt/2004 "...courtesy of the Mathcamp/ESG team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of ... identity lends itself to a political identity: the idea of a blank passport ... stacks of blank paper. But that's the beauty of the untitled. Its

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... someone out there is reading, learning something, or just caring out of the ... announcement that I'm throwing my hat into the ring with the rest of them. Nobody

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT ... or more, ranging from as simple as who sits at the head of the dinner

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... Cities group, and our car, the CityCar has received a lot of press over the years ... current list is: -Treasure Island -War of the Worlds -The Time Machine

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010