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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  army, and when they're on shift that's fine. When a fire fighter cooks ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food. Before Matt, Ben, and I gave our presentation last week we went for lunch

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might ... new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... community and leisure. Everything's becoming automated -- ticket sales, even

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  caffeinated soda and delivery pizza. If you do go to MIT, resourceful rooftop applications might come to mind. And either way, it wouldn't be hard to assume that hacking indeed originated at MIT, where computing and cleverness go

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  talented peers from 49 countries as partners in learning. Talent and ... top download at a popular indie music Web site. Dupuis loves math and sees MIT -- and Cambridge/Boston -- as a dynamic confluence of her two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  Here at MIT, with our large population of international and immigrant ... between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  article. So, I watched season 1 and some of seasons 2 and 3, but I have completely missed this season and now I can't believe my eyes! How is Taylor, a ... -culture to me! Please and thank you.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  've told this to basically everybody I saw today and I feel like I'm just ... ." And what am I doing for Spring Break? Well, I'm not heading east like our very own Bryan and Anthony. Rather, I'll be going south and west to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my ... the coolest bridge ever? I'm not Course 1 (Civil and Environmental ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was ... meal for him: steak and potatoes. For serious. It blows my mind. So ... has enough food for 5 people, and I am not 5 people, so somewhere along

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

  The summer begins…

  

  and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels like summer has actually begun... and it's time to enjoy my last months at home with friends and family before heading to MIT. I'll be leaving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  ). Taiwan cafe in Boston's Chinatown. Soup dumplings are delicious and fun ... (and most expensive) movie theater. When I walked in, I saw a big crowd of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  students—current and alumni—as they explore and prepare for careers. Whether ... applying to graduate or professional school, CAPD has services and programs ... employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for understanding the physical world around us and the abstract world within us. MIT ... traditional areas of pure mathematics such as analysis, algebra, geometry and
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?

  One of the highlights of MIT's yearly academic challenges and ... passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of ... supports innovation and entrepreneurship as public service through an annual
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures involving writing, kid shows like Arthur, and you guessed it, the Internet ... : what if I took the risky route and just stayed in Boston - writing and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... cannon and/or set on fire.   Ma! Pa! Big news from the big city!   This year, my uncle, who hosts our annual New Years Eve party, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  One week ago, everyone's parents were here on campus, and I mean ... people who were on campus for Family Weekend last weekend. And not only ... only one whose parents didn't come, but sometimes it felt that way, and I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said "If I could start my life over, I would." and he said, "What would you ... that a while when we were walking and later eating at a quiet thai

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and ... rain. Gotta love a barbecue. Mmmm, polish sausage and Star Market ... plastic balls on you. And you. And you and you and you. Yeah, that's a lot

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007