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• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... 't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a ... helped to create giant underground lakes in ancient Egypt . . . at least I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  everybody, certainly; at times rewarding, and at times quite painful. Eight

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  amazing. Exciting. Insane. Definitely take a look at the main MIT site and ... ... Will you be HAPPY (at least ~50% of the time)??? There's a reason why ... emotions are usually at one of these two extremes. When we say that “MIT is

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt seemed like a good idea at the time, but the results were sparse. The two ... to write an entry about my experience here at Los Alamos, but anything

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM subject: Snow snow snow. So I'm from West ... main thoroughfare this morning when I woke up at 7:30: I am seriously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  pyramid at the end) Last year at Lip Sync: (you may have seen this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  though we're actually in Cambridge) at least once. This is because Boston ... disappoints. Someone asked yesterday if anyone at MIT could cross-register at ... opportunities for cross-registration at Wellesley (yes, even boys), the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  housing. I haven't become entirely senile yet, though; I'm working at Pixar! Lots of good stuff coming your way from the studio - at the end of this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  dinner at Uno's afterward. And here I am at 4:30 AM writing this post, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... here at MIT, but I've never seen Rockwell Cage that packed. People with

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during my freshman year UROP at MIT's Center for Cancer Research. The Center

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  good officers staring at the Great Dome from their bikes: As a measure ... was out there attempting to take pictures at 5AM, while most of you, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get the score report in two months.) In other news, I got this email from ... auction for all abandoned bikes at Next House. It won't be until the 2nd or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  Roster) While Stefanyshyn-Piper was at MIT, she lived at WILG, worked at ... , you know, looking at different schools. I figured, OK, Massachusetts ... fun at MIT I decided to stay an extra year and finish my master's degree

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  (CPW). For the food snobs out there, we had lunch at Legal Seafoods ... suite, and dinner at Figs. In addition, three very notable things happened

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  (independently) were expecting glass flowers like at the Bellagio. Not so much ... The Inn at Harvard. They were really mean to us. Grrr

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  the meeting, the ECs had the opportunity to address the audience. At left, two ECs help the attending crowd check in. At right, EC Joanna Tan ... little jealous that Bryan got his name in lights at the Detroit/Ann Arbor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to ... pleasantly surprised to find NO traffic at all (not even near Manhattan *gasp*.) Perhaps the ungodly gas prices kept people at home. The only line that we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005