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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny ... in a city for about ten miles and then suddenly there's an ostrich ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

  

  the way the mind must become cool and empty for the fingers to run ... there was too little time, and too much friction between me and the parts ... me of what's at stake. For a waltz: Imagine the girls and their

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named ... team,[/annotation]⁠ will be there to help Soooo…what to do between now

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... , there seemed to be a lot of air in between the kicks and "injuries." This ... the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I

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

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  debate between those who admired the squadron for their aspiration and ... swung in their favor, and they won the title of National Headquarters for the coming year. We also voted for the Arnold Air Society and Silver

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a ... the prestigious Nobel Prizes, honoring individuals for achievements that makes people laugh and then think. What does this mean? Well, basically

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan ... MIT/Wellesley, $12 general Free food and ice cream with price of ... So me and my 133t h4x0r roommate Yuan decided to take over Bryan

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  . '12 and Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night.   Not ... prestigious science and engineering research competition for high school students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  solely for [their] content.” Those are merely "used books" and not fit for ... , and I know none. For the fun of it, here’s some technical antiquarian ... ). Collectibles $100 and under for those “discovering” the antiquarian book world

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  . In my case, I’ve spent too long in the transition time between lab and ... commitment than it used to. I gained a higher tolerance for low effort, and I ... do, to get there. When you sleep 3 hours a night for a week and

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow ... (ditto for your core); and cotton kills (NEVER wear cotton in the cold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  innocence and unadulterated curiosity; for me, all the literary value of ages ... , abruptly, absurdly nostalgic for an oasis of ketchup-and ... house intended for around 12 residents. Stepping inside, I was tragically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  looking for a program that didn’t promise that and rather had a different ... providing many opportunities to go abroad to work, volunteer and learn for ... amazing bonding experience for our team, and created the basis for the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three ... Advisory Board for the GEL Program and got to see Bernie Gordon, the program

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... between dangly earrings and studs. But what if I got an infection from the ... ’t decide between studs and danglies in the morning and all I could say is yes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni ... , NJ and Washington, DC are all having meetings. For a complete list of ... time and had a beautiful garden. But the most exciting thing about being

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  awesome.  He brings in new poetry books for us each week and postcards, and ... of the books and watch the rest of the movies for the class. So there ... people cook and serve a vegetarian meal to a group of about 12 people who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions ... and do techniques for experimental neuroanatomy and electrophysiology, and more generally, techniques for studying how the brain works as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006