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• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  first got to MIT in August 2016, I was temped in E entry, and the first ... the brick oven design of the dorm and the giant windows that face direct ... note="when I first got here, it was F that dominated Housecomm and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  ’s often easiest to just toss or cross out the whole page and move on instead ... , where the local minimums are the end of the semester and the local maximums are the middle of IAP and summer. A couple fun items include: an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  class of 2013, the government shutdown, and a host of millions of ... and not at all self-conscious ideas fell apart at the feet of the ... : I'll go the gym starting tomorrow!! And from this week on, I'll gym 3

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... Institute and its significance in the world of Science, Art and Engineering ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  the collegiate success of students from small towns and rural ... country and around the world. Now, as a founding member institution of the ... Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , paging through Swann’s Way and feeling little pings of recognition at the ... dream you’re reminded of after waking—how the back-and-forth of our voices ... hundreds of interlocking bars—but it was this first glimpse of the tower in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and ... . One of the questions on the app. asks, "What do you do for fun?" and ... take out the descriptions and cut it down to one or two pages?" We use

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , the transcript of the interview - which Melis and I published in MIT ... through the first three chapters of our textbook, covering Coulomb's Law; the electric field; the definitions of divergence, curl, and flux in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it ... might understand why. On the first day of classes, I had Intro to Biology

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... pictured above.) 2.) Notice how the first page says "Nathasha, help me," on ... these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the ... : laughter, dreams, and the first sunshine in spring. ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  campus during IAP 2012, swing by during the last weekend of January and the first weekend of February, and bear witness to what happens when a few ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  was my first hunt! I was dragged into the hunt by Shuli, and so I hunted ... THEME “Who is John Galt?”… which was the entire text of Atlas Shrugged and ... MIT culture as a whole. Speaking of this year’s Mystery Hunt— The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to ... political science research design, statistics, and R, the computer language of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into ... of all of the nearly 40 teams participating, and worked equally well, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  .” – WGBH website Since one of the hosts of the show, Nate Ball, is an MIT student and this is National Engineering Week, there was a sneak preview of ... the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  sudden show up on thousands of websites and be thrust into the limelight ... ! The next day I woke up bright and early for the first panel of the day ... stopped nearby me and started chatting with a bunch of us. We asked the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... I sat down with a cup of coffee and the prompt of each essay and said

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023