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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... would be far cheaper and less labor-intensive. So for the last month, the ... is a refrigerator which has a Samsung Galaxy tablet mounted on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend loves wooden puzzles, and so I went with a wooden puzzle box: a box ... emailed him the images I wanted, and then for the text we found some good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... mean edit out your natural voice, for the sake of producing a piece of ... application cats. Also, last night we discovered a new qualification for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  endure as a woman. The way at age 8 I was criticized for the way my body ... sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... on a near-cosmic level, like soulmates for friends. That was until we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  boundary (almost an A! or more likely for me: almost a B!), the score on the ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... that they break down all the different motions we learn for us and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... the rule “simple enough for a kid to draw”. Certainly you don’t want a ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a crop top originally purchased for Barbie, and a t-shirt given to me by 2 ... -- and we've each come up with a unique product, and have spent the last

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I ... trick-or-treating for Halloween, and stalked the application tracker on my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  : brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great opportunity for high school ... be visiting a number cities across the country in the fall (cities ... Beginning this coming Sunday, April 26th, MIT will be going on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in ... the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal-compound catalyst for metathesis--a chemical process wherein two reacting structures

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... we weren’t the funniest friend, or the best listener, but we had a ... psets, or the grades they get. Then there’s the times I’ve asked them for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in ... first time in years where I had the time and energy for a project like ... you that this walk reminded me of the power of perseverance; that, a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  failing for the most part. it’s been a lot of fun and we’ve had some good ... figuring out how to move better, but it’s not a priority for me at the moment ... events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep ... around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  for sure. But at least, I’ve now got a new hypothesis:  Maybe the ... -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  that discussion. For the past three years, I've been using a laptop that ... Next House: 1. A telephone (the MIT phone policies keep changing, but as ... , you'll unplug the phone and put it under your bed because who needs a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a ... Cornell isn't tired of losing yet. The whole thing can't even be called a ... example for a lot of arguments either, but he's an engineer for NASA. He

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  Thursday, after my classes were done for the day, I grabbed a few friends and ... time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... refers to the final day that MIT students can "drop" a class (remove it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008