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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday ... Spring Concert.  Every April, students bring a major musical act to campus for a huge concert. Going back half a century, the MIT Spring Concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• 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 ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the ... hedges", which was a commonly used debate tactic in the 2012 United States

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  eateries and La Verdes convenience store in the Student Center, a three ... , MA with some friends. We had a kitchen with all the cooking utensils I ... was a little depressing. This was one of our first "classy apartment

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... . Now, I may decide to paint them a different color, speed them up, or ... . Actually, let's address that first. As you may already know, we have a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite ... calculations were wrong, and there isn’t a transit today at all?” The second ... Venus is a fairly predictable thing.” He paused, switching the settings on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... , “Special report from Boston!” (where I’m a student ... the reporters pointed out to me that today was probably not a good day

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... a positive feedback loop that generates entertainment. While I don

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered ... Dunkins. ~and~ (5) I had a blast at Culture Show 2011 :) C-Show is an ... ). It brings together MIT students from a variety of races, backgrounds

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  Chemistry). MIT held a press conference to announce Prof. Diamond's win. Here ... didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a normal MIT classroom (it looks a lot like the room where I took 18

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  socioeconomic diversity. 75% of MIT students graduated from public high schools, a ... a good deal higher than many state schools. Additionally, 15% of MIT ... have terrific gender diversity for a science and engineering school. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  I know you've had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand ... , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... daunting (in a good way). Luckily the level of enthusiasm all over campus is

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  no longer have a 57-credit limit for the spring semester, nor do they fall under the A/B/C/No Record grading system that second semester ... assigned a departmental advisor, who can guide you through the course

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

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  suerte! :) ---- Some things I learned this semester: Here's a fun ... They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... Technique describes as a "collective photo blog" and which allows you to view ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... , photograph dome from afar to share on blog. YAY! They put a BUMP on the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  3:30 on Patriot's Day Morning and rode off into a quiet, misty land ... before 6 am, and a huge crowd had already gathered. There were three tiers ... /ladder constructions, and those in the trees. Niki '09 and I grabbed a bench. She

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Overture. The hackers' apparent leader delivers a short speech. "Remember ... vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  sounds incredibly daunting, and to some people, even a little crazy or ... to do it. If you're a junior or sophomore, that's great, you have ... 'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007