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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  air cleared. But the end of the alarm has come often, and continues ... DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into ... journey and then post the rest tonight, so come back! First, Stata's newest ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... for them and the less snow, the more they can deny winter exists. For me

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... Favorite thing about MIT: The people. That students and staff are engaged in so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  ), which before had annoyed me on plenty of occasions, and the podunk central ... having something to come home to at the end of the day and someone to ... depressed me more than to crave some of Mom’s cooking and head down to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Warriors captured their first district title and reached the state tournament ... 's a smaller program, sure, but it's kind of growing right now and the ... rules. He gave each player a copy of the Book of Mormon and a pass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant and ... idea that we don't need eyes to detect the essence of light, and that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  knew Portuguese"]the head of MGH Pediatric Surgery[/annotation] and likely one of the best surgeons in the world. And just like that, all the ... medicine is a marvel of science and engineering At the start of the semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  websites and wanted to help out, and I was the only woman there out of twenty ... clubs and this entire flavor of career. I’m still on the mailing lists ... multiple majors, and lots of people are there to check it off the list. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick ... Infinite. And of course...After that, I headed back to the student center and ... a person's life, and the influence of genes). I've never really been

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  the world, and I would've believed you. This place was not my own. I ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... grass, the trees. The professors and their canvas messenger bags. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  attended more shows and explored Boston more so than even some of the ... Communist Dracula Pageant. When we first heard of the title, more than a few ... across Boston. Ah, the T—our source of transportation and much agony

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... ." The next day was, unfortunately, quite warm (high of 48F), and when I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -American appointed to the cabinet post of U.S. Secretary of Commerce and former ... . Byrd Scholarship. Craighead is the son of John and Chaney Craighead ... studies and literature. Craighead was a member of the SCAEL science team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  first case of robot hazing on the campus. Last fall, during "Rush Week," a ... fraternity claimed that the "fun just got out of hand," and that the robot ... : 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  where the first tear fell. It was the first one of the entire month, and I wiped it away. In the middle of psets and parties and rehearsals and hard ... of papers and a lighter into the courtyard alone. I didn’t care who was

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  selected by interview from the list of EC, Random Hall, Bexley, and Senior ... The class of 2011 all got this e-mail this morning: Class of 2011 ... , filled with its ups and downs, and we hope that all of you are enjoying

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  semester, I got a 14 on the first exam and dropped again. Insanity something ... for the first time. Vidya, aware of my unprovable connection to the ... brains"]UROPs,[/annotation] [annotation note="Program Director and host of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  -axis) affects your probability of survival and (2) the relative y-velocity between ... First off: The Tech ran an article about our site redesign / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021