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• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  easy to say that some people and/or places just don’t get me, but harder ... .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  trainer when I get back home. Despite all these things, I've been going to ... institution. I love MIT. MIT is great, kids. You get to do shit like this. Sorry ... 'd ever get to explore or do. I've tried so many new things, met so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  , where I seemed to be getting closer... ..but not quite what I wanted. I ... , elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... particular hack was done to honor the 50th anniversary of NASA, which was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  ="Residential EXploration, where first-year students get to explore all the dorms with a lot ... see what is possible when I actually get to put more time into fewer baskets, what is possible when I get to take a little more time to recover

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  the dock. In order to get away from the dock, you have to get the boat ... towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat ... watching, you also may remember that I got asked to prom. What??) If you

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  get to everybody, but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can ... /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend ... ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  't worry - you WILL have a host and a place to stay once you get here. We'll work it out! And if your host has tried to contact you but you haven ... and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  . Happy writing! Remember, make sure you get it to us within a week after ... be going insane trying to eat 500 lbs of food, watch people juggle with ... basically not sleep for an entire weekend. Current students/bloggers love to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... 't get it. But I am here to tell all of you who wind up here that Office ... written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  read and get acquainted with the various seating options. I picked up a copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it ... I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  to wander betwixt all the floors, get even more free food (with the ... side of Burton Conner, known as Conner 3, was fortunate enough to get ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... through [annotation note="the time each performer gets to stage + run ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students ... (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this ... . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017