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  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Cruftblogging 2014 Last week the blogs turned ten. We celebrated by ... Right back where we started from by Mollie B. '06 Cue the montage music ... Becca H. '12 Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch by Rachel F. '12 Do I have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the ... planning each meal down to the ingredient – until one big question remained: Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... variety of topics. Usually, the release of each issue has been marked by a magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... undergraduate congregate. Through an ornate gate, the cart I did elevate and escalate. The journey to migrate this crate did culminate, to where it did

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... about MIT, life, the universe, and other super specific things, like grass allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... the highest building in Cambridge! Or, more accurately, they do that at ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the past few months or so, or at least the past three weeks), I disengage my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Just the other rainy spring day when I was making my way across campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a dining hall three times in the past two years, instead favoring to use the ... concoctions every night, usually in less than 45 minutes. The kitchens are where

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am extremely excited to share my MIT world with the blogosphere and to heighten

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... my brain during the last two weeks, mostly typed at within 4 minutes of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  Dear November, 2009: I've reached the age when self-discoveries are easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my ... - I prefer my classes the way I prefer local fire departments: fast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  The deadline for Early Action (EA) application, November 1st, is just around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application ... mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal team actually removing the Apollo Lunar Lander from the great dome. This gives a great look into a machine room right inside, a trench around the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... midnight here on the East Coast, so Campus Preview Weekend begins today for the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future Engineers Scholarship. The application has been posted on the ASHRAE's Boston Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you ... , at least, I hope you are - just not the worrying part). Therefore, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  picture with his cell phone last thursday and sent it to me. The text that accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007