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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here ... . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  of our noise. :) I played in the Assassins' Guild tenday game. My ... The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the ... of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  seeing the way that this person took the heat for their weight made me ... scale, but I digress. For the most part, my family was pretty heavy. Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  play perfect defense the entire game and still lose badly (for a more ... watch as for solo defensive plays, there are many varieties of good ... every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  for people who’ve already arrived, and I got to play a lot of games with ... Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for ... , although I’ve never played the game. Danny tells me that Floor Pi had a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not ... Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I ... [annotation note='future readers, the deadline for mit rd apps was tomorrow when

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I ... '09. Shortly before Iona scored the game-winning sudden death double

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  boat; let's spend the dorm's money and take a trip out into the middle of ... that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... things a little differently. Here is this incredibly artful for those of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more ... problem for three hours and gotten nowhere with it. There were so many ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  video games I had not played for years. I was also able to take out some ... where there was a somewhat creepy old man with beady eyes playing the piano, but he played well so that's all that mattered. After dinner, we

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  t-shirt designed specifically for the game ... So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The Game. This was my first time in all four years that I'd been at MIT that

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where ... , so random people could join the team just for the one game, or so that ... a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  the tune of $25 a gram online for my UROP project and braving the ... recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school, and who I continued to use (and drop) for the next five years. The hall

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy ... satisfies the thesis requirement for astronomy minors and some unknown requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  [*] dressed up as Scarlet Witch for Halloween [*] saw Spider-Man: No Way Home ... place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as ... on campus. I was taking 18.02a and 8.01L. I was cooking for myself and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  for the football game. It wasn't raining, exactly, but it was humid and ... past few weeks, we were finally ready for the football home opener ... -Center pool to cheer briefly for the water polo team. (We will, as a general

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005