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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now ... carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery ... whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots ... manifestation of k depends on the opponent and the game. And this model, like any ... , Kyle Arrington to make a terrific pick on one set of downs before failing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  as fast as possible, enjoying the flavor for a second and moving on to ... Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to ... they went all out on an arrangement of The Imperial March for $300. They

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  Psychostick - this song is my first memory of most of the freshmen on my hall ... the words mean, and i listened to it on the way to fencing practice ... to this song on repeat for the entirety of IAP. i'm not sure why, it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  for a new plot. These stories depend on each other, but no story itself is the whole story. It just keeps on going. Bringing new twists and ... lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham ... Ways of Looking. Another best-selling author, Claire Messud, came to lead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  have a pretty wide body of knowledge on high schools, towns, regions, etc ... knowledgeable on many types of schools, and your moves will be an important part ... disappointed that I don't have a list of funny essays on the top of my head... S

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of these policies, nor on the proper configuration of copyright law. These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  simultaneously (!) Armed with the skill of ambidexterity, he was well on his way to ... a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle ... As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively: Greetings all! As you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/yourusername. Neither of these methods are foolproof, but they are good first checks ... The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out (several hundred of them late this week; more will be mailed next week, be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... , they were designed with the new phenomenon of cars in mind. Copenhagen ... the draw of being able to chill out on the commute, rather than being

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  application on the official UROP website, and send it to the UROP office for ... D students, and grad students on their research projects during the semester ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  're kind of like the MIT equivalent of the Facebook group. Everybody's on a ... ). While most students are on Reuse, I suspect that most of the actual claiming of goods is courtesy of East Campus. A random number, pulled out of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  of an institution determine where you apply. There are only three ways ... knowledge) I am the only person elected Governor of two states, New York and ... Name: Bryan G. Nance Job title: Director of Minority Recruiting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving ... of fun. (SPOILER: It was). Fast forward to the end of the PE class ... to be able to orient yourself in such a way that you can stand on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  (I can file an entry on Yoga under "Academic" right?) Today I received this email from the Committee on Academic Performance (links are all ... successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  across all of EECS, it should have a strong hands-on experience, and it ... the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  Bryan '07 (Chair of the Committee on Housing and Orientation). Here we ... where every week feels like a hell week in some way. It's also been quite ... nearly a month ago. We had the retreat in Cody, New Hampshire. It was very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005