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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot ... ISS transits to the second, there's actually quite a bit of uncertainty ... predictions of the event. And so, on November 10th 2012 at 04:19:53 PM EST, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  's what I like to see on a problem set. :) ... .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... on one of our psets, which refers to "Professor Alan Guth," father of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times ... on others that that strips me of my merit as a student and I begin to ... to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ... this Friday), and attempting to put together and remember choreography on ... to put together on Spotify. Here it is: Comments on certain

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  're still on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM ... to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... the office on the weekend that decisions are released, so to prevent any

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  professor: (on the board, while trying to abbreviate "Associated Homogeneous ... 's 15 and she didn't go to high school. She worked in a lab instead, and ... I got back to Boston from summer vacation September 2, and it's like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on ... aren't really looking for a precise answer; they're just trying to ... see - which means that on a daily basis I'm not surrounded by most

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get to be a perfectly average student with perfectly average problems ... I have finally failed hard enough to prove that I needed help as a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... . Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the ... -tufted grey stone of Killian Court. Valentine's Day fell on a Thursday. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least favorite styles. I decided to narrate a scene from last Saturday night. I had a lot of fun with this exercise and decided to write not just twice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway, the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  working on a fix.If you have another, different bug to report, or if you ... it weighs in at a solid ~7 megabytes. If you're not on MIT's lightspeed internet connection, it may take a few moments, or minutes, to download for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the ... 4-5 minutes to engage a panel of judges (representing all 5 academic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have ... increasing health awareness at MIT,” put on a “Spooky Skate” event at our ice ... costumes. In my freshman year, the “best costume” award was given to a guy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer. Classes end this Wednesday, then we have one day to study (most schools get ... . Volunteers meet outside of McCormick and travel to Lawrence, MA to work on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  as submitted on the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to ... EA to RA, write to [email protected] from the email address on your My ... that you wish to change from EA to RA. Financial Aid is a different

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022