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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  been part of MIT since the Institute’s earliest chapters. By 1884, 23 years after MIT was founded, the Banjo Club and the Glee Club had been officially launched. The October 22, 1884 issue of The Tech confirmed that, “An

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this ... Engineering students. The course focuses on educating students about the design

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student Art Association’s Speed Graphic. I loved the results: The fine

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . My take on the movie, 21: Completely NO spoilers: * Check out ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke or hamentaschen? The latke and the hamentaschen are both Jewish foods that have long divided the world, being the source of almost every battle

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into half-floor suites. B entry has a common entry lounge on the eleventh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the ... nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  I'm finally all settled into my summer experience in ~~the bay~~ My 6AM-6PM days begin with a long but beautiful commute through the mountains and are filled with hours behind the tissue culture hood. The cells

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  up the class with the number? (Hint: there are two 14s and two econ ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project” and in 2003 “has been named 'Scientist of the Year' by the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning they sent out the following blast: Dear Glass Lab followers, One of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened ... the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up, do live mixing during the concert, and then tear down their equipment

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  . Walkthrough. If you haven't played the game enough, here's three paths that let you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter. Work on the project more → Keep working on your project → Work on your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  This blog post is about the following picture: In particular ... got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  Applicants who have been watching the online tracking system at My ... the letter from Ms. Chu? And my transcript? Weren't they all sent before the deadline? And in the same envelope? Am I in trouble? Let's take the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  , elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of the MIT community (and sometimes the world), while also providing ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008