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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  for the famous shower scene. Chocolate syrup was used for blood, and a ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  the mail for a week or so after it was mailed (i.e. "lost in the mail ... Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched the Macy's parade in a tee shirt. Actually, since that one snowfall, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE END … well, except for these p.s. type additions: *Here is a short ... Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student ... fit in. For the first time in my life I didn't enjoy school anymore. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near-exact replica of the MBTA Red Line. This marks a pretty important moment for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  , to the point that I sound like a drowning male frog through a voice ... more of this to come later, but for now, thank you so much for the ... Speaking of deadlines coming up really soon, the blogging scholarship

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... &D challenge, a call for dormitories, independent living groups, and Greek ... promoting child advocacy, and even relief efforts for the tsunami and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  due to carpal tunnel. I bought a sketchbook for the first time since ... ; Extracurriculars UROP: GEAR Lab For my UROP, I'm designing the hydraulics of a small ... I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  's a tip for you when you make the trip out to Boston: if you are going ... behind the Prudential Center that Cathy had been wanting to try for a while ... digits lost to frostbite. It was a tale for the ages. It was one to tell

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  camps, as the internees learned to make a living for themselves and make ... finding my new home for the next 4 years :) Anyways, that is a lot of ... for the last three years running >____>). And this feeling has

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  /Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... for a small instead of a tall? SMALL IS A RELATIVE TERM, mmmk?) Let this possibly-doomed-from-the-start experiment begin. Edit: For '11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing the next year's Hunt. For some history ... some puzzles for yourself, you can check out the archives, or you can try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until ... du Conseil - Room for the Observatory's Directing Council, featuring ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -purpose computer is the CPU – a device responsible for fetching and executing program ... Pad worked reasonably well for a few minutes, we then learned the hard way that ... If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  that the official requirement for a raft on the Charles after sundown is ... circulated boat-to-boat. We camped there for a few hours, exhausting the ... visage. I duct taped a garbage bag around the hole because I didn't want my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

   urgent despite the grade not being finalized for months. Start making a Google ... need a 431% on the final. Plan for every possible exam score you could ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  project with a team for the first time ever at hackMIT instead of just ... lot of busywork, it was nice to *feel* things for the first time in a ... happenings, but my group does really good work for the world and i want to be a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  being a blogger for the past five years (yikes I'm old). There were many ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011