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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... already around Cambridge. Can you identify all the locations? (Eternal Fame ... I think she did a fabulous job. She started learning in the fall on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to ... Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It ... favorite videos/movies ever. I do not kid you when I say the Cat in the Hat ... 'd like to keep updated on what movies we watch next, you can track it here.

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  and if you ever stole anything in your life, you should confess now ... you a Paula Abdul song if my life depended on it. I hang my head in ... while we watched the season 3 finale of The Amazing Race. As you can see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  rays from space, and you can make them at home! I am not making this up ... out that you can make a homemade fog machine by boiling Glycerin (found ... . Anyway, I've been living in Fran Sancisco this summer with (a sizable crew

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  master's student, I can't live in the[annotation note="There are graduate dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  T stands for “trailing” as in “trailing number”. By now, you can ... in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy ... for most operations, and noticing the imperfections in it can be subtle

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  panic set in. You're going to get nightmares of every tiny mistake you ... off some games that I made (one of them can be seen in post about Splash ... 'm on PNR so I don't have that much to worry about, but you can still feel

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... /injury, but you can find it at the top of a WDTV (CONTENT NOTE) article from ... long time. I promise you that you can have some rocky times academically

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  researcher, you can get obsessed with and trapped in your little specialty bubble. You can spend YOUR ENTIRE LIFE studying one celestial object! I ... learned that you can stunt a poplar tree's growth by depriving it of copper

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So ... because learning is learning, and you'll get that in pretty much all UROPs

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... next one being released right after. Right when you feel like you're ahead, you're suddenly behind. I know I could just finish the psets

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... in three years, just imagine what we can do in one more.

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  can do that, look! The record is only 14, and you get an hour and a half ... . Anybody interested, let's meet in the 23 at 3ish. You're welcome to try to ... 'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  paper and I am done! You can read the final version of my paper in the ... subject of your essay. You cannot just be “in your own head” or making broad ... -reviewed research. The key is that you find support for your argument in scenarios

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  cents, you can get anywhere in the city? Did you know that people put ... thing to a “hidden gem” you can find in Aberdeen. It’s a children’s theme ... stillness. The isolated natural world can really pull you out of busy lives

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... progress and start over from the top. As you can imagine, this usually takes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  're in one of those areas, I hope you'll come see me at one of my meetings (you can RSVP at this link). Yesterday was a pretty good day. For most ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004