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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... comfortable performing in front of a group [kind of to be expected] but more

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  pump and her phone on DND.  In one last attempt to get a hold of her ... roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s fault

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... the a cappella groups on campus delivers singing-grams on Valentine

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... "far" from campus forces me to plan ahead rather than fall into a bad ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... CCC. On Friday afternoon, I went with a group of about ten MIT students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on" on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer ... convince her to write a guest entry? No, that's not gonna happen.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but ... Jeannie, where she has to make a robot Jeannie to walk down the aisle with ... . Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their classroom experience and get some fresh teacher
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  Bombers installed a giant concrete bomb on the Kresge lawn, which led to a ... pandemic, but we managed to settle on a place in Faneuil Hall. It was pretty ... .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... Campus Police on our behalf. Thank you to all members and friends of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... of their program. A company representative at a career fair came to MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... visually by some serious on-table choreography. Freestyle rapping was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two ... from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  was on the now defunct MIT ChemECar team. ChemECar is a competition to ... things that make the digits on your calculator) to a plastic. 2: Make the ... peer-reviewed journals. MIT has a program dedicated to giving you the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... on fourier transforms and sound waves. I was a little tired since I have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... . Come on, join us and our chocolatey goodness. You know you want to. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh ... enthusiasts but applying them to a specific social and environmental goal," he

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  into the kitchen to enjoy a free dinner. Remarking on the quality of the ... prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared ... .01, he expressed a desire to visit Trader Joe's, a local grocery store

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009