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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  festival, there's even an class you can take to work on one of F.A ... community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... for the Visit Team that I sit on. I organized a tour guide program at my

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to ... , 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the ... committee decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  long as I have a piano to practice on, and people willing to listen to me ... This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... ! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always ... students who've never touched a nerf gun before the opportunity to shoot one. i wanted to give middle school and high school students a chance to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... exact location or have a poster of her on my wall, but just underneath ... my time to strike. But naturally, as both a good person and someone

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  with their bags up to 500 miles on a single tank of premium unleaded ... people from MIT and Friendly Planet on four expeditions to Bhutan, a small ... , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  students to alleviate their stress and guide them on a successful path to ... It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... relationship. Anthony's take: this looks like a *very* promising way to get well

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant ... of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  something to work on, another challenge to tackle. It's a constant learning ... training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5 ... join us on the ice afterwards to learn to skate. It's a fun and relaxed

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... editors decided to take a chance on me, some college student who honestly ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , better to be thorough. 12. A bathroom caddy. Depending on you live, you ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  one is expected to spend at least EIGHTEEN HOURS A WEEK on work. I don ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... proximity to so many different countries make it so easy to hop on trains or busses and travel around all throughout Europe on a budget. I had an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... the beginning of January. We are still not 100% set on a name... Here ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  have ever submitted an 8.01 pset is at [annotation note = "I set a new ... underwater on a random Thursday evening. However, it did come at a cost ... , and I want to learn new and interesting things, but I also need to learn

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  touch," Kreminski continued. New to the US, he blazed a path ... spare time, he would listen to cassette tapes on pronunciations. A teacher ... With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009