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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of ... The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... , and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  , we had to hit several locations–Whole Foods for the pre-cooked turkey ... Trader Joe’s for the cheapest prices.  Our crew of four shoppers split ... , just to gauge prices before actually buying things. Then we roamed the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  and help to pave the way for the pro-market, small government wave of ... be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with ... “protection agencies,” which are businesses that individuals subscribe to for a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... quarter mile from French House to the heart of campus) for... Meeting #1 ... 's been devoting a ton of time to research." And ultimately, it's most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its ... drills, and everyone I talked to had done tons of robotics, and it felt ... ) are able to take some of the wood and reuse it for their own ends. When

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community ... Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to ... cost, I recommend taking three SAT IIs in June. I encourage you to ... admitted students to postmark their decision reply forms. For Sarah and any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  started, each team was able to purchase (paying for shipping costs only ... ’s common for it to “unlock” the rest of the story of the hunt. Alan: Kickoff ... team meeting! We agreed to go for it! Go all night! Finish the hunt! And

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  injection molding, casting as well as the tradeoffs between cost, quality ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  ;? Congrats to Bryan for completing it! Bloggers have strong track record; Mitra ... /AIDS initiative. He served for six years as Senior Advisor to President Clinton for ... price of antiretroviral treatments down from over $1000 to about $100 (a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... where things started to go downhill for us. ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... , without having to wait for a traffic light, but they aren’t really that ... crossing without a stoplight, cars will wait for you to cross. They like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to ... that state for 30s in totality, when then I’d snap back to take a photo ... Objects move/change too slow for humans to dynamically notice. That is not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  cost. Tesseract, the MIT solar electric vehicle. Next up for Tesseract ... place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount Auburn Street when a state trooper pulled them over for not displaying a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... classy!! It is company policy for most companies (I think) to provide ... family and friends. That night, we got to the beautiful guesthouse for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  . Bryan, what are you doing today? I'm going to GRAD SCHOOL! I surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  hard for me to deal with because - as you'll learn in this post - I deal ... 's pause for a second to unpack that. It's definitely not true that every ... really wanted to work for were *not* big tech companies and therefore had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  ). When I got to MIT, I didn't have any expectations for the people I would ... record, I outed myself for writing the 200-page Haikyuu!! fanfiction to MIT ... 's decades-long hunt for a serial killer whom he saved as a child. It has tons

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  in time for half-price burgers. After that, I went over to visit with a ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005