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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  part of her head exploded because she couldn't figure out how I, and only ... to say, except thank you Sam and Ruth! Oh, and Rick is kind of upset ... DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... of other MIT people) increasingly live on different ends of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  upperclassmen and five employees of Ethicon Endo-surgery, a medical devices ... is like, and more! ------- Oh, and I must mention this… On Friday ... internships as well. It was quite a spectacle, as 3500 MIT students and alumni

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We ... as a function of admitting, not admitting, and time. Maybe she'll let

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  ) CMS.621 Fans and Fan Culture (Ed Schiappa) My favorite class of all ... extensive blogpost on why I love this class and why this class is great. Ed ... was a lot of reading and the discussions were semi-intimidating, I feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  courtesy of Sara, and then some MIT advice courtesy of me. Sara Advice When ... like Andover, Arlington, Worcester, and Quincy. While most of these ... one. There's one biggy, the litmus test of tourism in Boston, and that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... Frontenac, varsity golfer and witch of balancing objects on top of each other ... fizzy green liquids, owner of a popular LinkedIn meme account, and wizard

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of ... of roosters and step outside my door to see peacocks, cows, and stray

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... history of tattoos, and Yiddish politics, and ghost stories.  Fortunately ... Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007 ... photo shoot time. The girls were from a spectrum of schools and ... physics professor, WNBA basketball player, secretary of state, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  on the floor. I put the projector at the back of the room, and got Eric ... from the semester on the projector, and assigned one pair of kids to each ... , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  , meditating on the nature of nothingness and absolute freedom. It’s been a long ... the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  show choir my junior year, and the captain of the 40-member flag corps ... kind of a blur for me -- my high school boyfriend and I were having problems and then broke up, so the whole semester is just a blur of angry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  spoil the location of them all! If you're on campus, see if you can find ... Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  ="Hallmarks of Cancer"]7.45[/annotation] pset on epigenetics and cell death in ... planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do ... conference [annotation note="in which the class of 2020 got on a boat and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have ... accidents” (source) and lost productivity. Regardless of the time, MIT was ... much longer than I anticipated on Friday night and didn’t really have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... models; building and testing mockups; customer evaluation of mockups

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011