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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  , it'll get you where you need to go, but sometimes it breaks. If it ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  of chlorine to personal containers as people get their water from a ... you don't have to worry about re-contamination in transit. There ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  . Sometimes those people get in. More often (and truly, mostly because of class size and rarely because they're not qualified), they don't get in. When ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... ones involved in pulling, it’s easier to maintain good posture, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  get to go to Europe for the first time in my life! (2) Teaching's funnn ... In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... any German. Not kidding: I just googled 'how to say good-bye in German

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... break I'm going to get to know my new camera better! I've started using it ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... facilitated this. good thing i’ve now placed myself in a job where i get to ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  . Don't go comparing yourselves to other people who did or did not get in ... to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career, and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7 ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  chance to get settled in. :) By the way, I've discovered that if you read ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one ... protesting about “demonisation” in response to proposals to stop us binge-drinking. Under the plans, alcohol will no longer be sold to under-21s in off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... hosed. Like fire hose. In my face. Get the picture? Oh right, pictures ... 's generally the same day they're passed out. That means you get one week to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway ... live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... flavor. After deciding to confirm my choice to live in East Campus, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... sometimes, but this semester proved to me that I can get it done. 2.009 pushed me hard. I had to build a model in seven hours in October, with barely

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... Programs, which you could listen to here). The final project in the class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012