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• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... . Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world, I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  .004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... build the Beta processor. Yeah, a processor, like you'd find in a computer ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Edward wrote: "Are the differences in education systems around the ... . We evaluate everything based on the US system. For example, students ... !!! :-) Yes, the folks who read and evaluate international applications are very

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts, two mountain ranges, and about a million different thoughts. The states ... unfamiliar home. The coasts, west and east; the mountains—high desert and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  suppressed conservative news from the social network’s “Trending Topics” module. Facebook responded; the Senate Commerce Committee sent Facebook an inquiry; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  liberal arts college provide more opportunities for learning about the ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a ... English Novels (21L.471 ), Eighteenth-Century Literature (21L.470), and The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... haven't read the part that was posted before this, scroll down to the line! The last thing you heard from us was - and we quote - “ALSSSOOOOO, WE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition. The competition involves designing
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  . That's because within dorms, there are many idiosyncrasies that make the ... Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat ... students in different spaces have such unique experiences.  Intuitively, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  On September 24, MIT admissions blogging and His Holiness the Dalai Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox. The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that Emad and I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• 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…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... the entire world Laura Nicholson's Funtime Adventure to the Emergency Room. So there I was, walking down the street, minding my own business

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

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  down to the Rio Grande Valley. The saga continues... McAllen, Texas ... Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Today I spoke with MIT News about the impact the Supreme Court’s decision in the SFFA case had on the composition of the Class of 2028, why it ... , on the blogs, I want to share some personal reflections on what this

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there are so many different people who make sure it continues the way it does

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I ... I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on MIT's campus. It only opened its doors to students this winter, so the ... 'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021