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• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  also did a lot of stuff that's more fun than on-the-job hair dying and ... asleep on a kitchen table and woke up to find my entire body wrapped in ... kind of anticlimactic, actually, and I don't feel nauseous or anything

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Building, because it is full of grad students and grad students do not sleep ... .  Or because of reasons.  Whatever.  You can't really have a holiday at

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  ' airplanes. This is kind of uncomfortable for everyone involved--imagine if you ... ," muttered one of our neighbors. Meanwhile, we muttered to each other about the ... is," said one of our upperclassmen. "I think we're the only team that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long ... . Each one should take you no more than four minutes to solve. Constants of ... while I'm thinking of it, that brings us to... FIRST ANNUAL TURKEY VS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

              ｃｏｎｆｉｒｍｅｄ     That is, of course, an MIT class ring, or so ... Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... with many questions. Who is this nominal (or actual) alumnus? Did he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... Growth Mindsets Or literally anything else that you want to ask me I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  , which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... whom we could not visit, and to reinvigorate the interest of those who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata ... displayed his or her drawings and models and gave a short presentation to a ... , 2016) explains her models to an audience of architecture students and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... trial, theater, or athletics. We were an unassuming group of nerds ... . “That is correct.” My heart snagged on the gap between her words. I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates ... . college firsts: first shower: it'll take a lot of getting used to. first

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  posting on the [annotation note="the schedule board is a beautiful mess of ... to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... confidence of an improv artist pretending to be a surgeon. Turns out, the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  wanted to write this, on behalf of all of us here at MITAdmissions, to ... also because the rest of her team is grieving her loss. To be honest, we ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  (still working on that). Following the release of admissions decisions ... MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available online on Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 PM EDT... actually, we’ll probably

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC ... like will be posted when I return on Monday or late Sunday night.

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  to work on other puzzles, but despite my recharging with pizza, carrot sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... to see if you can come up with any bright ideas: Odd One Out Or maybe

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think ... measurement of your worth. A decision does not validate or invalidate your life or experiences. A decision is not a culminating experience or the end

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... microcontroller labs due over the past couple of days. One of them just stopped to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006