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• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ... class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class ... brainstorming stages, everybody picked a toy from the brainstorm that they liked

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted ... closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  try at suggesting a party game ("Allison can go from Harrisburg to, um ... them together, from both teams, into a hat or coffee can. The phrases ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... assignments that needed extensions, and it's not like i needed a note from s3 ... could take a break from… from what? it's not as if i had work that i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  from 40-60 degrees on average, with rain on Thursday. If you just wear a ... ) "I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and ... have fun! If you’re from a warm place, please please please remember to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... into a lecture hall or classroom and serenade a lucky individual. Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to help welcome you to MIT. Beginning this Saturday, MIT alumni from ... check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... MIT! Here are a few highlighted events this coming week; see your My

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  from MIT on a Friday morning in June and received our commissions that ... My name is Evan Karlik, and I graduated from both MIT and Navy ROTC this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  helpful with this came from Interim Programs, a Cambridge Massachusetts ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... exciting ways if I took a year away from traditional schooling. Still not

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  the office, giving my eyes a brief rest from all of the applications ... students had exactly the same qualifications, but one student came from a very wealthy background and good school, but the other came from a very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  completely shocked to see the complete range of people admitted, from a child ... work. This doesn't preclude any student from receiving a quality ... see a broad range of kids instead - "from a child who made perfect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  quotes from a fellow intern this past summer. This poem could use more ... subleaser's rabbit from hell, and putting up with an absolute slob of a ... everything is so beautiful  from a height where to stay grounded is to float

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  Pika living group contains a bathroom with a metal door from one of the ... Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that ... Infinite Corridor: Otherwise known as a bustling, oft-clogged artery of MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  until people from [annotation note="my floor in east campus ... a visit, but when I tell you the ballet itself, for lack of a better ... "Jewels", which is a three-act ballet created by George Balanchine

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  Monday was a student holiday, which means that while my friends at ... ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  getting: 5 wired mics, a mixer, an amp, and 2 speakers + speaker stands from av; 8 wireless mics, a speaker, and a mixer from next sing; 16 wireless mics from mtg; 10 wireless mics and a mixer from synco. this was a bit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to write up a quick blog entry - so it has been quite an exciting time. I ... from their home state. But I also ended up talking to a few people whose

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a ... two, and the fever again would conquer my body. From that point, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014