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• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... accident stories of the "who does that?" variety. ETA:Arkajit said: P.S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were ... still maintaining the poem aspect of the piece. Getaway Car seems to have ... always loud.  You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi  I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your ... lathe and mill), Blacksmithing (!!!), and The Art of Negotiation ("so ... started at the very end of fall semester. MIG welding was a pre-requisite to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  good bit of hope and i jump at the sounds of passersby and each one ... measuring the times though it is hard to tell what time of the year i think ... of my presence is wafting through the air so you will know where to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 ... pie had a hidden cost in the form of this rating inquisition. Not one to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it ... above the doors that said "INSTITVTE OF NOWLEDGE" I related this odd

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... "]Felix.[/annotation] The next idea came from a student who drew an image of herself ... it -Emily"]class of 2024.[/annotation] And, just like the previous two

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the ... hard because you were walking too slowly on the right instead of the left ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about that.] I hope you'll find those really cool juniors (members of the high ... with a fun academic summer program. Many of the best summer programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  , and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the ... -known Chris trait: noisy eyes*). With the help of our senior bloggers, selected ... . I'm looking forward to a year of joyriding along with the bloggers we

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  the free food, and the best of luck to the Class of 2010. I'll miss you ... [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech. Please don't think that the Admissions Office would EVER do something like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... of the Institute, tucked tightly into an unlit cannon about to launch ... them I have no more than the distant familiarity of "hey, I saw you at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  and judge all of the stupidity that ends up on your psets. Don’t admit you’re wrong, even in the face of undeniable evidence. You can always ... the difference between affect and effect. Don’t voice any of your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to ... really want to do a segway tour of Berlin, though I'd probably fall off the segway: At the end of the trip, I might even get to hop over to another

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those students in the middle, about three quarters of the applicants, were deferred ... than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the pressures to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time ... the very next day and bought me this great, top-of-the-line umbrella ... disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... junior year of college. The workload has increased substantially, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010