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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  felt, unlike any other.  I helped her to her room.  I got a bowl from the ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... , grabbed a bag, some paper towels, and followed him down the hall to her room

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... 's Tale to Terminator 2. The second shelf has a pair of blank white ... there are a couple of CDs that mean a lot to me (from Regina Spektor

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... . I needed to bring back a heavy box of supplies I had taken back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  began. Each presentation had to last a maximum of eight minutes, followed ... repeatedly. A small experiment asking the audience to shift gazes between their ... -giving earphones? Nah.) A possible solution to this: MIRA, a high-tech helmet

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  knew I definitely wanted to do a spread for Issue 9, and specifically a ... be a spread lead, and was accepted. I then pitched the idea to the club at large, and was able to get a handful of people who would assist me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far ... hopefully green and equitable), and how to develop a political program that

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  implementing a project from this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing ... increased linearly with wind speed up to a threshold, beyond which the ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of sensors! an anemometer, thermal

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... are you most likely to ask on a campus tour?  what do you mean question singular bold of you to assume I would ever go on a campus tour

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  renting a van once there to take all the way back to Boston. We must be back ... check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just ... promising I would never be late to a flight again, I was promptly late to a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch ... , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where ... living their lives, and to remember there’s a world outside of psets and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose ... ’ve had a lot of chances to practice!). We are at Ben ‘12’s house for dinner

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

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

  

  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 ... their dorm onto the "testing site" below. According to Matt - who, as a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... repeat the whole process until you're happy with them. Give them to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... distilled into a form gentle enough to be diffused into our frail young minds ... source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  Microsoft, but has since moved to Las Vegas, where he became a professional ... 's taught me to think from a technical perspective, and it's much easier to ... Apprentice. Jennifer Johnson '98 decided not to sign a contract to appear on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives ... in similar attire to mine, as well as a stormtrooper, a ninja, and an 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading ... , a quirky, uber-creative guy who likes to stay up late every night and

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... was even more alluring because the MSA invited Yasir Qadhi to present a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your ... believe it just a little. Eventually you do have to start making a choice

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025