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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a ... , experienced some those feelings even before becoming a parent, because of her work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like ... endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food. Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I ... groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... deal of spinning, flipping, leaping and/or diving This shot is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been ... Globe (free registration required) which gives a good overview of the ... change for the Class of 2010 this summer (perhaps July?). The paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... was true. The problem was, I told this audience of ~230 people that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the ... [annotation note="no shit"]"blog[/annotation] intended to provide coverage of an

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders ... dinners six nights a week, as well as plenty of snacks. [caption id ... of social events, like mixers with other living groups and an annual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  things didn't work out because of covid. I chose Germany because of my long-running interest in the country and its culture, as well as because, of all the ... research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  of other MIT undergraduate women. We're part of MIT's FSILG (Fraternity ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the ... , along with the report[/caption] A lot of the report was redacted, as this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... ’ve grown a quarter of an inch in a week. (Or, like, some unmeasurable non ... forget it again in the fall haze of week after week of classes. I love MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021