Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  stared out the window, as trees, jaywalkers, and Starbucks stores passed by ... deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video-chat excessively with friends I’d already begun to miss. I haven’t had much time for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the rural village where we were supposed to stay and perform water testing for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and ... re-organizing the spices to be in alphabetical order by Latin name or ... long-awaited decision to join pika by scrawling “I PLEDGE!!!” on a roll

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  list than other cities I've been to and have been eager to get off campus ... people we'll never get to know through anything except these (essentially ... Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  preseason is the time to get to know each other better. [carousel image1 ... , where I get to explore with my friends and get to witness a glorious ... 1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... will take. In addition, I want to get a concentration in Music." I totally DID NOT do anything this cool to get into MIT. Just FYI, ya'll. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  get to everybody, but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can ... /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend ... ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  't worry - you WILL have a host and a place to stay once you get here. We'll work it out! And if your host has tried to contact you but you haven ... and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

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

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  easy to say that some people and/or places just don’t get me, but harder ... .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  students to eat more healthily, including by eating breakfast and (presumably ... see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  by temperature. You can also mouseover individual blocks to see data ... This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  posts include the ones by Lydia K. '14 and Anna H. '14.  One thing that I ... be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it. BUT NO LONGER! Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to witness the Blogs

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study ... by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox ... you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a ... Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving project has to be the gravy fountain: what's more excessive than a giant pie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006