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• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  MacGregor House, just before sunset. The left half of the picture is the MIT campus (including the athletic fields and tennis bubble), and the Charles River, Massachusetts Avenue bridge, and city of Boston on the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  Faye '10, Sukrit '10, and Ian '10 address the crowd. On Wednesday night ... Thursday morning, I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects ... . Some of the underclassmen projects I visited: Iddoshe and Yi, Peter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... before.) The page has been well-liked and well-used. But research of ... perform better (it’s both highly used and a frequent source of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on ... were abuzz on Killian Court early on the morning of Commencement ... year, the show was hosted by Institute Archivist Tom Rosko and Dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  around on my laptop and I came across a post on my facebook wall from one ... respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of ... of these actors and actresses look good. And they amaze us with their

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  (including an awesome evening of teaching that I will post videos of soon), and ... clown threw up on it." You get the idea. There are classes and clubs and ... today?" and then do it. The rest of this post has nothing whatsoever to do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  you had to take a broomstick falling out of the sky and catch it on your ... people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... outside of the Museum of Science on a Boston Duck Tour before the tour guide ... to the Museum of Science, and all we had to do was to give her our name

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate ... not stay on for very long[/caption] [caption id="attachment_84820

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY ... plenty of building going on next week, and we are so excited for you all to ... prefrosh until convocation when President Reif gets on a stage and says that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever-friendly photographer Eric Schmiedl. Video courtesy of yours truly.

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  , 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson ... cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Love Math Snakes on a plane!

  

  Yes, I will be watching this at 10 pm Thursday night. This might be the end of Samuel Jackson's career, and I might as well be there for it. And stay tuned for an entry about my 21st birthday on Friday.

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Neutrality, and Complexity Theory   Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of ... " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and ... . (Photo and survival of the author both courtesy of Charles Guan.)

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern ... groups on a term-long project of their choice. Various written and oral ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... will actually trade money for the transient pleasure of drinking it, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our ... always been a solid foundation for cooperation and source of support for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  the Museum of Science. Between using the machine shop and working on ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  of our break, I impulse-bought bus tickets to Penn Station. And so down ... American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the ... on American art, 2) showcasing less established artists, and 3) being

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024