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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... guy came through and passed out our numbers to wait in line for tickets ... in time for half-price burgers. After that, I went over to visit with a

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place ... September or October. We look forward to seeing you! ... road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Southern

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... it themselves. At this point in my life, I think I agree. When I try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about ... don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately need to find a job or something productive to do over the summer. Senior ... home in a while, and you miss it (or just the stuff that you associate it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  math classes or, as many math classes in the same semester. the other ... look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week. instead, there are only one or two courseworks you actually have to submit

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... discretion, for dinners or study breaks or even appliances for the wing to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... aggressively push the lever up and down in order for the toaster to heat up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient advice to give. But I really think Ms. Frizzle summed it up best when she

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  they lack clever names it's usually pretty easy to recognize patterns (or ... group of PSETing MIT students at 2 in the morning to do when they discover ... allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it means that if you tell a friend you can’t talk to them right now, or can ... make decisions for you, even if they turn out to be good in the end. Do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... in order to build a strong application to MIT, and most students are ... compelled to highlight a particular talent or skill that they believe is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  . Not to study or anything, but to participate in Mystery Hunt. I wanted ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects ...  did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  tetris game, or putting a police car or a telephone box on the dome. To "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes ... that he's a good orator in addition to a fantastic blogger with his

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... real, or simulation-to-real. After that, the next goal is to improve the ... exercise, so I'm not stuck in the gym wondering what to do. I'm working out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  , scanned, below. (please keep in mind: it wasn't light enough to actually see ... have you work independently, then explain your work to a TA or LA (lab assistant) to receive full points."]checkoff.[/annotation]i am number 16 in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019