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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... you. The reason I’m off campus is actually for a class that’s part of ... where I spend most of my time, take a deep breath, look up at the stars

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... 't even fully erased! One of the nice and amazing things about Diamond ... thrill of throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park. Check out the photos

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... a Guitar Hero guitar (that's the point of Guitar Hero), and if anyone ... key, literally anyone can play a (simple) set of chords and solos! I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... strange to declare my major. When I walked out of the Course 9 Undergrad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know ... of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do ... coming, oh, oh oh oh I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  Angela fumble with her two sets of poorly-sized 37" blinds) at Economy ... THE CASHIER: That'll be $12.59. at the door of Economy Hardware ME ... .. them. Both of them. WOMAN AT THE CASHIER: Right. That was you. on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of ... like you were there with us, here's a little bit of the evening: And in ... the puberty of internet history. **Did I just admit to everyone I watch

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  . We'll view the movie "Pi", while simultaneously enjoying a dinner of ... who knows the most digits of Pi will be rewarded with a Pie! Come for ... on his Wikipedia article and then saw video footage of it on CNN. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... event of MIT's International Development Week." 3:30 PM -- Attend ... .05: Macroeconomics problem set Who knows AM -- Fall asleep dreaming of a Jim and Pam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  As part of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a ... . Also during your introduction, give a little snippet of information about ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  anyway, after having another bowl of Chef Boyardee for lunch today, I ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box ... of the floor...) It was nicer than most meals from home! (Oops, my mom

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to ... very affordable burrito, but she would have none of it. Walking away, she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  yesterday's math competition win by MIT was unsurprising to some of you, but ... , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew ... play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  the middle of May, after we've received and processed the responses from ... overenrollment of previous years) and thus it is more likely that this year will ... . Schools understand that this scenario is a part of the process, and it is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  course of the next many painful hours. Is the blog still live: Nope (last ... their business in for the entirety of the 6 hour flight.   8:30pm ... past hour, and i've passed several groups of people discussing whether

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... -handed while announcing that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2029 will be ... couple deep breaths—of outside air if you can, whether it's crisp or muggy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am finished with my undergraduate career. I am finished with my undergraduate career.

  

  , enjoy these photos of me throughout the semester. [carousel image1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming. Its new number is 6.101, but I ... ="Introductory Biology. Fulfills one of the General Institute Requirements that students

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023