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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  multibillion-dollar-a-year business," he says. "They must know what they're doing ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 ... goes, he won $3 on a "tic-tac-toe" scratch lottery ticket he received as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  escaped relatively unscathed, just a few scattered tree limbs here and there. The house was without electricity and running water for quite a while ... in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  . There were moments of frustration and exhaustion, but also a whole lot of ... I’ve spent time on campus. I haven’t missed a class reunion since I ... for a few hours or days. I also became an Educational Counselor and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a special, less ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is ... engineering, but I thought that today I’d focus on a great idea by MIT Medical. The program is called “getfit@mit” and it is a 12-week, team

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  Maryland where Caroline lives, Jonathan Safran Foer came down to do a signing ... the early 20th century, Harvard used a substantial grant from George F. Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of ... seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow morning. My little brother (well, not so little anymore) is a sophomore ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... writes a blog (!) for the admissions office Debbie '06 spent the first half

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  classes are as follows... 5.12 (Organic Chemistry): This seems to be a polarizing class - people either love it or hate it, and they either do pretty well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food choices or food policy through a medium such as a pamphlet, lesson plan ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  more one-on-one friendships or join a collective group? Do you want to ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... ,” while others mandate that students have a meal plan. Some allow students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the ... those of you who want a peek into how the different MIT residences choose ... tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of ... this MIT News article about her win and a great interview, posted by ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... Engineering just posted a short video about Glenn and his time and contributions ... not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for ... 'm doing at Apple, for obvious reasons   ...which basically means that ... this is basically a temporary goodbye (and a permanent goodbye to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  a company called Kovio, which apparently was founded by MIT alum Colin Bulthaup in 2001, the year he graduated from MIT with a Bachelor's and Master ... 's resident advisor.) He's actually doing some pretty cool work on the security

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  said something like "yeah maybe YOU don't, but I definitely do!" But ... miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person, or limit the things you can do. You owe it to yourself to find the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  . Unlike Paul, who was probably using his own computer, I am using a fancy ... rooms you have right now are completely temporary and you do not have the ... current roommate is also temporary, although you will get a chance to keep

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008