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• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  bag of chocolate chip cookies and stay conscious at the same time. The ... up my vital signs. The third rider on the shift was one of the new ... I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  or create new accounts. It actually turns out that none of these tasks ... There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  being aware of who you are for the wrong reason, at least you can avoid ... 2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  at the expense of putting something else off until later. Being in my ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012 ... For the MIT class of 2012 Gender Male 54% Female 46% Ethnicity & ... % International citizens 9% Geography New England 14% Mid-Atlantic 18% Southeast

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT, Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush

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

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  [annotation note="A set of clips that contains at least one vidoe track and one ... nostalgic enough song to go at the end of the documentary for the closing ... shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Neutrality, and Complexity Theory   Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of ... " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I ... !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... both at the ideas I have for revisions and the original quality of the ... cover in Reno, as well as the sense that it was immediately at the foot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  Admittedly, I’m not the best at keeping up with people. I’m pretty ... aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That ... 'burbs at the base of a mountain. Or wild turkeys. Actually, I almost got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  their goodbyes, she said something along the lines of: "at least we get a ... lists of ivy league schools they were interviewing at and how busy they ... best use of my time at MIT? Was I a failure? I was bringing myself down

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... people of relatively equal weight going down at the same time was not a ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009