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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... ) Because sometimes you look up and nothing makes sense: (7) Because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  Tube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... and family and drop everything if i need to make time for someone. "life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  ) spending three hours with a bunch of other nerds and a stack of pizza boxes ... elbow grease, carcinogenic automotive lubricant, and a home-brewed mesh of gears, motors, and bike chain that could easily tear my scalp off as I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to ... AM with the (vaguely) shocking realization that I had to read and ... ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and ... myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally finish and post it. I also gave up scripting this one, so my initial monologue was incredibly long and circuitous. Cutting it down to 7 minutes was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... , and I personally try to link each entry to as many other entries as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and ... 's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show ... Aero/Astro. And, while she didn't have big SAT scores, she was clearly a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned getting my ketchup taken away and them dragging me kicking and screaming ... chemistry and 7 meant biology; I didn't know where building 4 was and that you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... and co-chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have spoken to about this (both current students and friends who were rejected ... to my success. Comments like “don’t worry, you’ll still succeed” and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011