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• Blog / How to Human

  Living to Create And why I am the things I make.

  

  to build. I love to design. And I love to organize. There is so much ... traffic sign into the focal point of a masterpiece with a few Photoshop clicks. A set of scrap wood can become an automated plant grow box with a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  I wanted to go to grad school. The mask was just my way of ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by ... steps of the Student Center. The Tech Model Railroad Club has been ... and everything had to be done by hand. Today, club members design

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  school of engineering), [annotation note="Unfortunately, Yo-Yo was busy ... , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... a committee of techX which runs a high school research mentorship ... day-to-day of school and extracurriculars. It's an easy thing to turn to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  , CTO and VP of Design and Engineering. Wednesday New York City. With ... host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at this school, which warms my heart and makes me think of the good-times I had in my school-home. My team also has a lot of people who did not go

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  solve, and must work for a massive party of hundreds. Designing the ... UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle ... attracted quite a bit of news coverage. CBS Boston video The Boston Channel ... . You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel ... at the last page of the pdf. Soon, they will be posting the pilot of ... Discovery Channel. Barry also teaches a class on toy design in the spring

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... budget master) 2) Mari McQuaid, Assistant Director of Admissions 3) Martha Edison, writer and master wordsmith 4) Bryan Nance, Director of Minority

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries ... Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  elementary school and worked my way through a beautiful collection of nature ... triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread ... 't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009