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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! My friend Jennifer (MIT '01) is an artist ... 's artistic and culinary adventures at leftunattended.com. Looking for a little assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during ... potential Olympic contender or if this is the first time you've ever thrown a
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  without any actual assignments is 5.12). For the past few days, though, I ... . My house is here, as are my parents and all my siblings. I've spent the ... be any other way. I think this is part of the reason MIT gets so

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  summer internship? So one of the services MIT provides is the Career ... pre-select you for an interview which are typically held in the Career Office. In addition to the Career Office, there's also UPOP, a program for

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... stay in RBA for the year and thus in the same dorm for the year, because the program is based upon living in the same dorm as people who have the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  area, the perfect candidate for the dinner was found: Mu Lan Taiwanese ... swimmingly. The food is delicious. We talk about a variety of things: our ... , the research assistance funding for M.Eng students, and the ratio of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the ... them back every Monday. The second reason the Math Office matters is to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  at the bottom. And suddenly I wondered, why is it white? So I sat ... form as it drifted lazily towards the drain. Of course, the foam is ... there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  or ecology since I got here -- the MIT department is focused on ... exhaustion), and the line looks nice except for the second semester of my ... be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  understand that you're a student here, that for the next few years this is the ... School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  envy. The view, however, is not intended for the weak of stomach, or ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy heart of residential Cambridgeport, my home for the rest of the summer. My

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  other, and Adelaide is more important than Mystery Hunt. The puzzles aren ... some of them for more information about the case. But the contacts won't give up information easily, so the only way to convince them is to solve

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  for their rant.) This is also true of food; I like to eat the same ... loves to cook for myself. As I move through the semesters at MIT, the food I choose to cook has come to be as defining, for me, as the music I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for ... 's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... against puzzles of any and all forms. This is the MIT Mystery Hunt: an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  advising seminars. The general scheduling rule here is classes from 9 ... . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... college is for right? So three weeks into MIT, intramurals were set up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  land a job at Twitch for the summer about a month before COVID-19 hit the ... did not get cancelled and instead went remote for the summer. I was ... , or a nice area in the middle of a city, and was super excited for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  of college! i think it is useful to pursue things for the sake of ... more than i will on the things i've learned for 6.854. one. there is a ... is equally possible—even the flavor text for the card asks the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  down, two more to go. 2:10 PM – For the next three hours, we present our ... : https://www.facebook.com/imesmit/videos/1908234159392157/ Three down, one more to go. 5:02 PM – The instructor for 17S.914 has organized a Graduation Champagne party for all the graduating

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  for their research, because all you have to do is say the world ... mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006