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• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine ... , culture, and diversity. I will admit that sometimes it takes a while to get ... . Similar to my experience, you might end up living in a quad your freshman

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to ... Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4-5 reading days each week, we ... much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for me. This morning was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  research projects so i have no choice but to work a lot, and so on. but i think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... it actually mean when experts expect a million americans to die from

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  Submarine. It kind of small and a bit before their time, so they decided to ... well-established floor personality, so they decided to run with a comic ... Mural We have a couple of murals dedicated to our DTYD parties (read more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation ... tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  allows faster cyclists to pass. Every major stoplight has a smaller set ... are incredibly difficult, because you have to wait for a herd of bikes ... objects here, they just lock the back tire to the frame. It’s a little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a ... break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... freshmen. Totally optional, but a great way for incoming students to meet ... all ages and disciplines -- they just expect you to come in with a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  ISS transits to the second, there's actually quite a bit of uncertainty ... If you hang around MIT long enough you'll begin to notice some ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... your head...but it's a good one!) To find out more about the Logs ... As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... ! My wife wanted me to share this link with you, in case you have a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a little over a year to six large nations. Negroponte has identified China

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych!!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious ... A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Mail Date: March 11 Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy stressful time.

  

  As you've probably read via the homepage, Friday, 3/11 is our goal. If that slips for any reason, I'll let you know. Less than a week until I get to shave... NICE Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  .  We recognize it's a lot of work for all of you to apply to MIT. We ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... using the same username and password that you use to log into your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to ... , if you manage to do rooming right (but we'll save that for a later

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Miserables. Jerome gives me a ride to work most mornings, but the night after ... . These happen to come packed in a jar of brine solution, but they are still ... basically amounted to a hot dog shaped into a little loaf size, plus the best

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006