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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But ... host to a wide variety of versions of campus life -- from the typical

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

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... Bombers What Bomb At Midnight ------------------------------ Just to show you how much I love mystery hunt, a few old blog entries: Mystery Hunt 1

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch ... wants to make a decision like that assuming that it would determine the ... think scaling back was a good idea for me. I was able to devote a lot more

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close ... 't mean that someone knows how to cook a pepperoni 'n' cheese Hot Pocket ... body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke ... Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend ... MIT hacking culture. (If the term sounds unfamiliar, make sure to check

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer ... weather and went out to Chili's for dinner, then shopped a little at The Pru

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  everything was virtual. But even then, people still found a way to make it fun ... CPW events going on that you won't have a shortage of things to do ... go to a college, which was my plan after high school, I'm not sure what

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... alone, where she befriends a dragonfly that offers to help her on her

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post ... -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads ... , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus ... own. Was I dreaming? There are a couple of proposed solutions to the ... being denied access to a place that is a home for my hopeful heart and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I ... friends. They really contribute a lot to my sanity some days. They really ... there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux" from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my ... ." I think honking is a sacred activity and this sort of socially

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a crossword, but you have to figure out the rules in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  . Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an ... In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  then apply it to biological systems. It will be a love/hate relationship ... questions in science, but it will also be a little scary to give the next 5 to 6 years of my life to answering a question that might just be one

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  -MIT/Boston-specific ("Go to a formal"). I've never understood the attraction of formals ... to make a shorter list of my own, of things to do before you graduate ... . Submit a piece to Voodoo 15. Participate in the annual Voodoo Telethon 16

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  that you should come to if you happen to be a current mit student ... ohms. arranging here refers to the process of taking a song and turning ... highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a ... humanities, do you really have to learn major numbers” (answers: a zillion

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016