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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  symbols on the tabs disappear and you have no idea where you are clicking ... . Sorry guys. Hope you didn't have your heart set on a real, live, poetic ode. As a freshman, I would, on occasion, hear people talking about the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  AM, would be a horrifying thought. But on this particular day, I feel ... minutes before lifting, I sit in a corner and nibble on a breakfast cracker ... and can't take focused photos on my phone... Word of advice: always

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  wanting to be flown back home because he can’t work on the grounds during ... on takeoff, but he made a high-performance takeoff, pulling up just in ... at the beginning of the show that there was an “escaped convict” on the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  angle of the “absolute confidence” gesture? I make the final decision on ... entire prod staff on my side. How do you make a picture in your mind come ... on the idea, and came up with options (1, 2, and 3 ). I gave feedback

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... ended up spending a lot of my time over on the east side of campus, which ... handle on what that means now. I haven't pulled an all-nighter yet to do

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... , played twister on a rock wall, played dodgeball on a trampoline, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  meal plan program back on campus got canceled. We share the same ... . After orienting ourselves and collecting my luggage, we hopped on a ... had recently acquired and was proudly wearing on its windshield

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  measure of his success on Election Day) the guy behind possibly the most ... .).  Even Obama got in on the fun. But it's not just that FiveThirtyEight was ... ’t have a tenure track position." (on why he hasn't open-sourced Five

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  America, breathing, stretching, dancing, hiking, subsisting on a half ... originally was hopeful enough to think I'd bring carry-on). The hardest thing ... still, back on campus after a few jam-packed days of orientation, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... , you may find yourself fortunately positioned such that...and on and on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was ... bedrooms with my brother at one point so I could paint a mural on a larger

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  't like feeling a vibrating reed on my tongue, I shuffled into the band room ... act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... instruments, I dropped the trumpet on my lap, swung the flugelhorn to my lips

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... , which determines a song's relative "summerness" based on qualities of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in ... for a real adventure. It all started with my mom’s DVD set on National Parks. Or did it all begin when I read an article on the epic Dipsea Race

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  :25 to be exact. Nonetheless, lady luck was NOT on my side Thursday morning ... nice to meet you!!! Add me on facebook ;) I also met Ameesh, a high ... !) After finally getting on my flight two and a half hours later than

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  letter on your behalf. Please recognize that teachers are very busy ... better approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair ... ; recommendations will need to be on paper and mailed to the admissions office. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to ... author makes no guarantees on the confidence interval or whether a survey

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  most shows are taking holiday breaks, I've been able to catch up a bit on ... it airs on, in case you're curious): 25. Cash Cab - Discovery Channel ... on Nickelodeon...) 17. America's Best Dance Crew - MTV 16. Survivor

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  my poster and have to rely on the copy that my friend Anna has hanging ... 've done just over half of all the items on that chart. One item that I ... 's 7 active Nobel laureates* on the MIT faculty, it's definitely possible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008