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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  of helping us avoid food coma). I ended up spending quite a bit of time in the downtown Borders (walking away with Ringworld, The Left Hand of ... Mass Ave, practically in view of home...and then I got distracted by the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Legacy of England (21L.420), then they are available! Another traditional duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and ... Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... thinking.   It was in the process of doing so that I discovered my true

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... something that would grace the presence of Arthur Ganson! (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went ... . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively: Greetings all! As ... of joy, we are trying to help his older sister (McKinley "Drama Queen ... tantrums that have become her hallmark of late, I'm sure that we could win as

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... 9.15 (Biochemistry/Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission), a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... of me with bad hair. Hee. And yes, sum1, MIT does have a marching band -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... deal of spinning, flipping, leaping and/or diving This shot is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... was true. The problem was, I told this audience of ~230 people that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... was our middle school version of Memory Mushroom. Letters from friends ... the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who ... Professor Winston. There are many geniuses at MIT, but not all of them

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... list some of the fears you may have (which I had) about going to college

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018