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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the readership of each entry decays pretty rapidly. The ten most recent posts have

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special ... favorite '09 prefrosh and now he's a full-blown MIT student, workin' the CPW

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  "I watch the perverbial sunrise..." Mission Log 1025: Destination ... with the bloggers, I headed over to the CambridgeSide Galleria with Mitra to pick up a travel book. (Yes, I waited until the last minute to

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  If you continue reading this entry, you'll get the puzzle solution. Let me know what you think of the puzzle. Too hard, too easy, too short, too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer ... students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and while we're not doing any admitting over the summer, there is still a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile, encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast Pacific Ocean on the other. Tucked into little apartments and host families

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were stuck in place by commuter traffic and people rushed across the street as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fraternities, I'm basing everything primarily on my fraternity. The two dozen plus fraternities at MIT do not all have the same personality, so it ... jump on the bandwagon, but I think I supply the missing "third side" to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... FREE activities as part of its day long Open House (also the kick-off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want ... that were going here. My first look into the dorms was the i3 videos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I was living in Chicago. I didn’t know anyone I was living with. Over the course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year, I sat with my mom in my house, watching the ball drop on my television

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a ... about their lives here and I read all the admissions blogs too but I wasn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... am, I have Astrophysics lecture, so I scurry from the Z-Center to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... holding that particular instrument?) After the orchestra teacher suggested that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  This weekend MIT Japan paid for all the MIT interns in Japan to meet up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  -long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the neighborhood Walgreens. (Notice the torso-sized hole through which the model

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs, professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006