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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  , Robert Grubbs, and Professor Richard Schrock. Professor Schrock won the ... the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal ... .012 and her TA was Frank Wilczek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  with over 400 other MIT students, will RISE FROM THE ASHES and be the ... Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when ... the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  inside of my lip, and there was also blood on the outside of my lip... As ... called the MIT Police, who notified the crew on shift, who happened to be ... . =) They packed me up and took me out to the ambulance on the stretcher. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  and Gabe put on velcro suits and then thrust themselves onto a large ... -MIT program about how parents and their children rank the most important ... bowling. Jousting. The obligatory Tim the Beaver picture. Gabe and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what a sunrise sounds like another one for your ears

  

  moon was setting over walker memorial, that brisk boston breeze and the ... ) out by the sailing pavilion, there are some benches where you can sit with the road behind you and the river path in front, and watch the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  and brought inside before anyone on the walk-in line was. I was then ... nothing. We sped through documentation and thought up of new things on the ... finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... was. You can check out the Boston running map here, or go and do a ... Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  of being able to write a paper on a chosen topic. the last class i ... 've definitely been on the other end before, and i'm trying to not feel too bad ... "department-wide seminar," and the primary audience seemed to be faculty

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of ... the construction at East Campus, when I start seeing more people on the T - it hits. The memories always come flooding back. I remember being

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add ... preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  . And then it was the 16th. I was anxious so I took a walk on the gravel ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT ... going to happen. I’d spent the last two weeks on various phone calls

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  more familiarity with the notation and subject. Sadly, classes here tend ... -explained Wikipedia entry as the first Google hit on the topic. But instead, when I look ... 's computation and complexity theory class, which uses the textbook that he wrote

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I ... students at MIT, and next week she and I will be presenting about our Maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale ... Dinello, and Stephen Colbert (it's French, bitch). Then we took the #1

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  , and got on again on the other side. The tattoo parlor looked surprisingly like a doctor’s waiting room with masks and red paint on the walls ... between dangly earrings and studs. But what if I got an infection from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on ... , and consumed something on the order of 5-10 each. It was a fabulous mood ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  . Every attendee had to work shifts to help put the event on, and I was a ... —if you wanted to dig in more, it’s laid out well on both the blogs and ... their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  "burgeoning center for ... arts and culture ... maintaining the warmth and ... short updates from Harrisburg over the next week. But once I get back on 6 ... grad students, a sixty-mile stretch of rural highway, and the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  the process of teaching, you learn more about your stuff, and how others ... . As an undergraduate I TA'd six classes on law and technology. When I ... high school students taught by college students and where the motto is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014