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• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... entrance and exit gates. Within the plaza itself, paint-peeled buildings ... made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring ... here's the course description: "You choose the title, we improvise a 5 ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  Hola! I’m delighted to introduce the newest page to the MIT ... ideas for the page and working with the communications team on an Español video, featuring members of the Spanish-speaking community at MIT, we are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  (or FASAP, or Arts at MIT. It also may be the class with the most names ever!) being the best class ever. All the way back in September, we ... Theater Arts, Jay Scheib. One of our FASAP advisors, Sara Brown, was the set

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  You’ve read in my blog entries about the weekly Engineering ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging. Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab!) checking out the Boston Marathon hanging out with prefrosh at my fraternity

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  dark screen flashes the large bulky letters at the same time, or when it's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in ... not only Sonic the Hedgehog, but also Donkey Kong, Silent Hill, Myst

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  airplane. Then maybe two. Then sooner or later, people forego folding the paper airplanes and just start throwing paper into the air and catapulting toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... news for Heroes fans at MIT: Masi Oka, who plays the lovable and awesome Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ... 's the blog entry? I'm not seeing it. Are you busy or something? When you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  This past week, I went to the Intel International Science ... the Indianapolis Artsgarden: At left, the glass Artsgarden soaring above a busy city intersection; at right, the crowd at the reception. Faye

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

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I'll provide some data about the Mittens (MIT-Tens, as coined by Stephanie in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) on Thursday, May 11th, from 4:00pm to 5:30pm at the Indianapolis Artsgarden

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Liechtenstein is less than 5 percent the size or Rhode Island. However, it is only the 4th-smallest European country. Wikipedia ... ). But this entry is about the Boston Celtics. I'm Tau Beta Pi social

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their welcome message David D. Ho, M.D., HST '87 delivered the keynote

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm ... interesting lecture/discussion. The featured speaker will be Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow ... that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn ... stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  items had mysteriously appeared on and around the Little Dome, Lobby 7, and the Infinite Corridor. I take my blogger responsibilities quite ... do sleep. Really. Just not during normal hours.) *Jack Florey is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005