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• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to bore you all to death with an insider's look on some more specific

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... alums of First East.   6. Carrot cake baked by the First East Birthday

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  our paper to reflect our professors comments on our first draft, but ... closer together those entries were. I used to say that after 3 or 4 days ... /weeks/months that I haven't had time to write anything. Here, check out my full page

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... host teacher requested that I provide grades, so in addition to grading

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  basically amounted to, "But wait. Wouldn't you die?" NO, Chester. The first ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... the descriptions that will then be given to an illustrator. Then this ... easy to follow path. Comic books, though, are static images that rely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  Intramural Table Tennis team. Or learn how to dance through MIT Ballroom ... the table next to Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. Sigh. First circus school, then this... any guesses about what's next?

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor ... . (This is where all the magic happens.) Huge kudos again to Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  township was large enough to need two high schools, there was only Middletown High School. When the district decided to expand, the original building ... was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap ... Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  the airborne pumpkin have to come to terms with its identity* before ... 54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit ... tallest building in Cambridge. Every October, First West, the smallest hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011