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• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... half-floor suites. B entry has a common entry lounge on the eleventh floor, with colossal windows on two of the walls, and we also had a suite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to ... 't tend to do much to prepare--they might look over a few problems the day ... peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That's right, I have a Twitter account, but I DON'T USE IT, SO STOP FOLLOWING ME

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  told him to bring his guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic ... enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could ... New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  changed to be shanty by pop culture. When I say CHantey, I mean a historical ... " was a work song sung to coordinate a heaving task (like spinning the ... blog at some point. Our class has been planning for weeks to do a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over ... ... Guessers within half a percent either way [12378, 12502] were Anonymous (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you ... night before. It's a well-kept secret. But I have proof. Behold the two

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it ... their spring semester, before receiving a week of relief to recharge. Now ... I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners ... of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... apples (and/or pears) An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away - swap a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to ... the admissions world for the opportunity to become a student again ... blogs I plan to discuss: EC interviews, rants from the road, and life as a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  have the opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and ... -Chairs --- Feel free to drop a comment if you’ll be partaking in these events, I ... Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  emotional bias with a scientific eye, and to daily question and reaffirm our ... with him (and they have a perfect right to do so) but rather than ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  place really like? I was there to teach a renewable energy course at ... project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was ... Armenia, which I found to be quite fitting)']Dilijan.[/annotation] A solid

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  things are unspoken, yet they say a lot, so I decided to not let ... A few months ago, I stumbled across this blog, which takes a look at a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023