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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn ... . Most people around campus know Glenn, by sight if not always by name, but ... to campus, which are highly visible even while his labor is not. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and ... heroically toward MIT. Simultaneously bewildered and inspired by the aerobic ... greeting as we passed, accompanied by a frenzied, Picasso-esque facial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... openness to talent, and a long tradition of national service — I believe

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  , led by MIT Music and Arts Lecturer Mark Harvey. They treated us to a ... [by Shelby Heinecke '13] This past Friday, the MIT Symphony ... symphony was composed by Charles Shadle, a faculty member in the Music

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs. It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• 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 / 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 / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students ... (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this ... . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  'll travel 13.7 billion years back to explore the Big Bang itself and how state ... opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in Developing African Nations and the Role of MIT Students The resources needed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  tries to remember my blogging username/password. So then, where have I ... applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email), though I've been sure to take some downtime for Heroes, Veronica Mars

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  have to do problem sets that tested our prowess at using Maple, they tested our ability to give presentations by asking us to design our own ... complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022