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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the connection between stereotype and reality. At all. I think it must be that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a ... tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... during their Freshman year." That must make me a failure. Good thing I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  see a tear. "I call her my miracle child," she says. From a young age ... Library on East Houston Street near Avenue D. "I always wondered why she ... was a shock. "I definitely felt different," Cristen said. "I didn't know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  It's been so long since I've last posted! Sorry! Things have been ... charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I loveee Cake and was super, super excited. In all my excitement, I brought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a ... , and the Infinite Corridor. I take my blogger responsibilities quite ... practical jokes. But I'm going to build up the suspense a bit longer, because

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come ... link to the new building. Perhaps I will take some later this week ... -40 undergrads per class year in course 9, although I think that number has been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up until today, I've procrastinated about selecting a HASS class for next semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  so our air conditioner thinks it's outside. I love engineers ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  ;   As I wrote when we admitted them: These 1419 students are truly ... -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly ... I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be old (I’m not): the people running REX events are the people REX was for when I ran REX events (still not). This year I get to experience R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  required readings, and I am enjoying a breezy carefree summer. I have sadly ... catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly recommend trying again next summer. I got in as a sophomore, the second time I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011