Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  time to get back to my room. Stay tuned for a fun day trip idea! ... wonderful and fun, but it was getting late, so I decided to head back to my ... to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help ... proudly won for most spirited. And what did we get as a prize? Angry

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  about nothing but MIT for a while. Hang in there and feel free to weigh in ... the next few days with some photos and such. Try to get some rest ... leaving for the day :-) They both looked kind of tired, but as you can tell

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... more structurally unstable by the weight of the expectations attached to ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  enough to get around Rome for 2 days this spring.... Anyway, like all good ... around. For example. But this entry is about languages. Unfortunately, MIT ... took here my first semester was 21F.716, Introduction to Contemporary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  can see below, supplied by Random Hall for free: Below are some of my ... to me by my mom’s boss’s wife when we first moved to Chicago 16 years ... personal prize for getting into MIT. </div I also have an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  structure has to provide sleeping area for the 10 people in our class and ... glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to spend some quality time with my family... I hope many ... attendance. Last night, my parents, my brother and I gathered for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  and pipe. This is my roommate Rob. He willingly accepted my plea to jump up for this photo. The things I get people to do for my blog. Today

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  First made popular by Bon Jovi, those lyrics brought my fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau, the prize for best large act at Sigma Kappa's Late Night. Last night, it was made a smash hit by Michael Borohovski and the Sexy

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global ... around campus, including a "film" screening by lbgt@MIT. Tonight at 5 ... gets infected with HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, you all aren't actually here

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... to the third largest Cambodian community in the world behind Phnom Penh ... interesting (at least to me). In the film, all three teens were from low income

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  hanging out the bus, yelling at us to get our attention. It’s another man ... always look for ways to play the victim.” I’m thinking of the video of ... them by the heads and shake them like ragdolls and tell them to shut UP

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches ... warning of British soldiers. They also got bonus points for things like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  normally everyone has ample space to live and enjoy. For example, my current ... management. Feel free to keep asking questions, and I'll answer as I get them. ... In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006