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• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... , presented the concept, and built a model of it. Using everybody's models and ... 's still kind of a nice look into the lab. Click To Play   This

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ... interest of full disclosure, I should point out (for the parents' sake, if ... advantage of all the free time (well, more free time than I'm used to, anyway

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  began the painful process of defroshing. I learned that, no, I was not ... , it was about the future I saw for myself crumbling as my knowledge of ... took up the hobby of exploring the ocean. I spent a weekend with hippies

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... Mafia where surprisingly I, as one of the Mafia, managed to stay alive. As for the rest of the weekend, I finally managed to halfway move rooms

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... mob at the last assembly of every year, so without warning, music would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  each universe we included some sort of a mood board, so here's the one for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a ... " and "easy easy" instead of the solution Audrey: ok i'm going to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  So here's the new plan: instead of me always spending all week ... sheer number of video cameras and projectors around the room. I personally ... by the fact that so far I'm kind of understanding what's going on. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced ... 's choice of funding sources has been in the spotlight recently. But they didn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  ; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of ... mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions ... become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  the class of 2019. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... taste of a few of the events this coming week. Check out your MyMIT portal ... the locations and times of the events listed below. Saturday &bull

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back, I want to rekindle the flames of my romance with MIT, and blogging for ... wobbling from the gravitational effects of the other planet that is MIT, or

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  in the courtyard, which temporarily becomes a sprawling playground of 2 ... bit less glorious, because the city of Cambridge decreed, for the first ... . Which probably would have been trivial, given the sheer quantity of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... years. So here it is, what became the biggest dilemma of my day: picking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would ... choice for yourself. This isn't the end of the road, and I hope you'll feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... in the cadre of engineers and scientists who come up with solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... of people consider "essential" for a successful MIT application -- the ... So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

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

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  have bridged the transition with a reasonably low rate of psychotic ... the comfort of a thriving campus community, where everyone I know lives ... ease of college life. It's a wonderful luxury to drop the pretenses once

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011