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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  together. So when you visit, you're going to get out of my way when I ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... nice time to talk about MIT's campus organization. My goal is to teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I ... ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  following conversation: F: i think you need to change the game settings and ... , because i’ve never been good at rhythm games and have relatively slow ... : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  have students submit to that theme. And so I pieced together the a ... all of the students that took time this summer to put together the blog ... about to get incredibly busy again (and after three months of relative

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... out to amazing music. I ate free food. I got Chris M. to autograph my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  together. We were basically talked through a scenario where we had to assess ... cool to see everything come together. Then all of a sudden you realize ... the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... i left boston to start my internship about 3 seconds ago. i talked to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  , check out this classic article from Games Magazine. If you'd like to try ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Review and Games Magazine. This year's Mystery Hunt begins this coming Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year ... Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning ... way the flower imagery bridges rigid geometry with the living and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  Last week I had my first exam, shortly to be followed by two others, and I'm happy to say that I suffer from this painful disease that seems ... deadly since there are little to no signs when you're first afflicted

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy ... packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with ... managed to crash the Internet. I don't want to lead with that story though ... , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005