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  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But ... and wondering when exactly it was the last time you got to go outside, and you lose perspective. (Oh, calm down. It's not all that bad. I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  the same question: “How do you like it here?” and “Is Nigeria different ... “black” got more weight and I wasn’t quite sure how to deal with it. Mostly ... Warning: Before reading this post, be aware that it contains

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to grip and switch a lever back and forth. It’s attached to a beam I’ll call ... ’s what I’ll call it.  Here’s the prototype I built in lab today. It uses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts ... with it! The manga’s been getting good and I eagerly await Jojo day each month. My last year at MIT, I spent most of it ignoring school work and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  hard to imagine how it could have made the 20-mile trip across the ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it ... , then compete to see who could make the most cuts in the paper before it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  , it is still uplifting, because it focuses on how the community of ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... captivating story. We had never experienced anything like it before, and two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... freshman fall, we’ve been collecting our sentimental objects in it. And have been referring to it as our Memory Mushroom (not to be mistaken with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside ... ;   Now, you may say, "but Chris, that's hardly a beard at all!! It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... , you can stay home. It’s whatever you need to be ready for another ... meets and hanging out with the team. (Seriously, it’s no wonder the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the ... , potential e-stalking, I’ll leave it as is. Natanya is pronounced Nuh

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from ... . Come and see how we did it. 6 opportunities in 6 minutes: 12 weeks until ... . It’s a capstone class for Mechanical Engineering seniors, where the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this IAP. (My French is still pretty bad, but it's getting better!) My other ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone ... 't get anything out of it. On the other hand, The Hobbit is pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... connect it to people’s Twitter accounts because so few people can actually ... had and making it their own. They will announce what the final look will

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  If there's one thing MIT students aren't known for having, it's spare ... long been engaged in philanthropy, having served as the student council ... event that encourages the student body to give back. It was then that she

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my ... of my life for as long as I can remember. My first team sport was pee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  , and we thank you so much for applying. Please remember that it's really ... address that here. Yes, we get it... we love Snively too. But unfortunately, Snively lives in Burton-Conner with Laura, Jess, and Evan. A long time ago

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best ... with me. His daughter had been planning to attend the session, but it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  ieYk It was (and is) incredibly arresting and compelling video, and I asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did, and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  's climate in terms of how hot or windy or humid it is and pack accordingly ... . There can be restrictions on what you can carry so it is best to plan ... students at MIT and it helped me a ton. I was able to get advice while

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023