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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  improve myself so I wouldn’t look so pale in comparison to him. At first I ... unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget ... ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , despite having bleached it myself repeatedly!). I forgot to bring my book along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed ... freshman IAP, and I’m bad at remembering to condition it. After I left home I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  . The first step was obtaining the wood (tbh, big thanks to Anika there ... up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... few other things are charged directly to my student account, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like ... have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  defend my home. =) Tomorrow: I'm going to the Manchester FIRST regional ... lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to put those new skills to work just last night, when I helped turn (turn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your ... guarded by a vigilant goalie with the power to apprehend nearby pucks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... further ado, let’s embark on our Tour de Frat! Phi Beta Epsilon First up is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... based only upon the places that look most fun to live in - while being

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... representative of reality. Please excuse my photo stitching.   From left to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... (except November scores, which we expect to receive shortly), and, if ... something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  beautiful. Two dusk photographs: first, the sun begins to set over MIT ... approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at the Pavilion start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the ... movements they want to experiment with from their own environment and paint

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of ... later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to ... real publication sold on newsstands that people actually want to read ... magazine with an extra section devoted to MIT-related news & articles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  this series of directions to follow to find the train home. Discussion: Sometimes the text included with the puzzle gives you hints as to how to solve ... much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the ... Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  respectively our first exposures to the name “Nova Scotia.” I volunteered the ... _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I ... 35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024