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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a ... . My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and ... minutes for a domestic flight – not bad, right? Well, it turns out that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  adorable. Here's him learning to use scissors for the first time at our local ... all the people making fun of "Rizz" and "Ohio" and "Skibbidi?" My son is the person they're making fun of. Man, he is ALL IN on Roblox, Skibbidi

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  play, but then I decided Scrabble could make for potentially interesting ... upwards of 400 points in their 25-minute games (we played for longer than ... of Absence for Academic Year 2020-2021, and afterwards it's unlikely I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  for that class was to  "Make An Agent." For this project, you must make ... either some social bot, tool, or dataset + visualization for the project. I opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  hosted a luncheon for the cadets where we heard an incredible war story ... importance while we were at CHICON. First, we voted for the Charles E. Yeager ... Arnold Air Society for 2008-2009. This resolution passed after heated

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield ... by the Globe Sunday said dozens of people worked on the project for ... Marvel movie was going to be released.   Chris Evans, who plays Cap

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  while being shoved around by fifty (50) drunk hipsters at a Black Lips ... recurring issue in for the last couple of years, probably made worse by my inability to remain standing on my feet for more than a nanosecond without

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that ... to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... . ----------------------------------------------- I'm not usually the kind of person who wonders what fun tastes like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  fun for the applicants, or for admissions officers, but it sadly is the ... concentrate on figuring out which one will be the best one for you and not ... haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  at ridiculously cheap prices -- a dozen oranges for a dollar, six red ... Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four years, I've actually never walked the Freedom Trail, the red brick path

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  sugar, so +100 for helth). Miranda’s parents also made the best Chinese ... here is. i originally intended for this to just be a fun post where i ... MIT is not exactly known for our dining. Well, even if it was, I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  terrain and ecology, taking pictures, playing with Tutti the dog and ... signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... charity show the weekend we'd depart for Palestine. But this was an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99 ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn ... not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  can at least have the ring to show for it. I'll let you guys play out ... , curiosity, and persistence for it. I'd be remiss if I didn't give them a shoutout on the blogs here - so thanks for everything, guys! You might also

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012