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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community sponsored by Technique, MIT's yearbook and photography club. Students, faculty

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  date with occasional posts as he continues his own journey through MIT ... ) doodads to share life at MIT in new ways. * This is not actually true. I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  anxiety or anything like that. But tests at MIT...well, they're hard. So ... MIT has had those words written across the bottom. After freshman year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  theater groups and classes here at MIT. She made this very coat as part of a ... when there are other, more MIT-specific costumes available to choose from ... with one stone. I'm a member of the MIT Assassins' Guild, which was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  Sometimes MIT catches on fire. Ok, maybe not actually, but sometimes MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found ... more than an obnoxious insect buzzing in MIT's face. Chris '12 probably

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should ... . I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it ... the great style and culture I see at MIT. Did any of you find other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  receipt? Great, thanks. walking with Allin and Angela through MIT to Mass ... : Hey Mindy! Just bought some blinds.. walking through MIT to Burton ... the blinds are the wrong size) ... walking through MIT to Mass Ave

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  alive, relatively speaking, but also, that MIT students live in the city

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  As you may know, MIT has a strong and vibrant Greek community, made up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  cool? Food. So like 90% of MIT events have freeeeeeeee foooooooood ... he has learned more from his peers at MIT than the actual lectures or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... lot of questions about MIT and what it was like here. Ask people tough

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  role, a different persona. There was who I was at MIT, and there was who ... further and further through MIT, the person I am at MIT, that person who ... go to a place like MIT, and I promise you, you not only change but you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and ... Stephen Dubner, he received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. His

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  experience? 1. There exists at least one library at MIT. 2. There exist at ... Being by Milan Kundera. 4. There exist at least two students at MIT who ... two library books is 1. Seriously! People at MIT read books! QED.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  blogged earlier, is also sponsored by the French department, part of MIT ... French-language students at MIT are benefiting from a breakthrough method

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  Haven. My essay for MIT was about my life before age 8. My interview for MIT was 3 hours long. I sent a photography portfolio and a supplemental ... classes I'd like to take at MIT and realized I'd be here for 8 years. So I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT? (If there is any at all.) There's no specific upper-bound, but MIT doesn ... . Go, Mom, go.) If you're a younger student looking to apply to MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  , and I just graduated from MIT in June with degrees in brain and ... Harvard in September. (Like any good MIT student, I still get a little ... now. It, uh, hasn't exactly sunk in yet.) While at MIT, I participated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006