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• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  compounded by the fact that people in Alaska have received their decisions while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  while being shoved around by fifty (50) drunk hipsters at a Black Lips ... recurring issue in for the last couple of years, probably made worse by my inability to remain standing on my feet for more than a nanosecond without

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school ... wasn't the smartest person in the class -- it was great to have friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is ... to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... . Once said novelty is firmly affixed to said vacuum attachment, the lid ... approached. Not wanting to look like a complete weirdo taking pictures of a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... the authority to open up the wall whenever he likes. It also means that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... shoot (with a smaller camera), I spent a few hours struggling to fold the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  and congratulations to our new provost - Professor Chris Kaiser. You can ... .D ’87 represent!). I’m going to miss him, although our new lecturer is equally awesome (shout-out to my homeboy Prof. Peter Reddien! Also an MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I ... everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... ones I posted. Also, I got hosed. Junior year turned out to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  to make high-quality studio recordings at the click of a button without ... ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  . Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big concert ... the band's most popular song (according to iTunes) and my favorite song ... ("White Rabbit" / "Somebody to Love") 1969: Janis Joplin ("Piece of My Heart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  you go to college without it? 18.03 Book Mmmmmmm, Differential ... nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman ... Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love ... for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere to call home, a place that'd last, not like the city I'd move out of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

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

  

  series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of "higher education" to be truly educated, to approach issues of rampant

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  into the place to be. Other folks who were eating today's delicious gumbo ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... of media, from USA Today to CNN and space.com. Full article at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005