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• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I ... then I went back and checked out that squalor website again, and I ... was currently in a state of 1.2 class squalor. That warning was all I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan ... had a distinct code. Not only that, but you can look these codes up in a ... jaded enough that things in MIT are just weird by default. Alan: I just

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  kid in question is the aforementioned Mr. Dukach. The LSC website ... readers may remember that last year around this time I attended a free sneak of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my ... play tic-tac-toe. I entered it in a science fair and won a prize. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory. Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , last pset, last lecture, etc). I can’t help but feel a bit displaced ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  filled the void left after everything I thought I was had vanished. In the ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had ... , filling in every inch of nothingness. I had become pain incarnate. Full of

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  feeling stupid. avoiding embarrassment as in: i worried that if i changed my ... feeling stupid as in: changing my mind twice felt like i was going in ... because i say the same thing each time, but every time i feel like i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in college ... eligibility. Eligibility will be assessed by the Admissions Committee in the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  which you can see in the second picture and once I addressed some overlap ... an idea to bringing it to life are things I don't think I can ever get ... in maker spaces than I was and helped convert those SVG files to DXF

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... , you can actually figure out what you're supposed to be eating. In this ... would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... 4th to come. At least, I can't. :D But at least I am done with grad

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker ... front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... felt my feet in contact with my slippers, i felt anchored, i felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  the most fantastic and ethereal book that I've ever read in my ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in ... So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... this campaign, please e-mail me so that I can give you further details ... . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending ... group called the "Banditos Misteriosos" runs flash mobs in Boston. I got

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016