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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  interim at looked at another article in progress. Okay, this is still a long ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... Adams, Terry Pratchett deals in hilarity and improbabilities. Here is a ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... , someone who knows their stuff, but not in a way that when you ask how you ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP ... as a ghost who didn't know he was a ghost, an undercover robot working for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... they cool, make your sauce. Noted in the formula above, sauce is a ... one is a solid choice, in my opinion. Optional: add a fried or poached

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  opportunity is really a blessing in disguise. The hard thing is, the blessing ... - "College is a business. MIT admissions do not determine your success in life ... believe that wherever you find yourself in the fall is a place you can make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’s kind of like plodding uphill knee-deep in mud on a hot humid day. Who ... like to mention that there is a writing requirement here at MIT. To some ... ’s been months now without a new post. Where to begin again? But here is

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  you don’t like free food, you’ll love it here, too – there is also a lot ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... describing the content, I’ll tell you about my classes in terms of the free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As ... someone in this role, and they're no less of a maintainer than someone who ... Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  be a "tool" is just a way to avoid trying to find out who you are as a ... : What it’s like being a student in this strange place This is an essay by ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... . There is also a persistent decrease in purple and green and a sharp drop ... the trash. In Gmail, there is a gear button in top right corner. Click

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... you got in, and you aren’t a worthless plebian just because you didn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  . This is in some sense the ultimate subversion of pana-panahon lang. A ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  underground party in which electronic music is played, dancing occurs in a very ... , pancakes is a really weird looking word. 03:17 - 06:17 Curry Curry You ... this week, and friendly competition is an amazing icebreaker. After a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... —but in the 1920s, credit was given to the Dorm Goblin, who acted as a ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I ... , which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  the actual country-continent relationship, there is a ton of overlap in ... rather than a member of them, as I know alumni in the area who are still ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... excitement, Prof. Grimson is a wonderful guy. He's incredibly fair and ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  by James M. Cain - This is a novella, and was originally published in ... than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a ... (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018