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• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a ... PTA sponsored an "Author Day" at my school. They invited a children ... grow up," said Laura Nicholson, a third grader at Ocean Avenue Elementary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT ... or more, ranging from as simple as who sits at the head of the dinner ... . At MIT, fraternity recruitment - "Rush" - begins early. It begins today

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... read all of those applications at the same time and compare them side by ... at MIT. Schools that have Early Decision programs require enrollment

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ) Tuesday: Community service day - Made activity books for kinds at Children ... ! Muhahahaha: Some of my sorority sisters at the event: ZBT shows their Greek ... 20!) The pie eating contest: ...and more, at Greek Week!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on ... commonplace nor a prominent feature of most of the shows done at MIT). It's a ... working with the immensely talented and diverse people here at MIT I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  everyone else sings Sunday and at least one other day. A good choir is a ... time off this week. So at 6.15 Tuesday, I walked into Trinity chapel with ... 're supposed to be getting at Cambridge; frankly, it's the one I prefer.

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  powers at be have begun to realize that nothing swells the ego of an MIT ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... also have Mastering Physics due twice a week (Thursdays at 11:00 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  friends have been to even the UK (of all non-exotic places, at least from ... Italy. Second of all, I was officially offered a job at Telefónica. If ... Jersey or the same floor of the same dorm at MIT, I'm finally taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... you anonymously suggest at the beginning of the meeting. Facilitators ... tolerant, religion is more pure. Crazy. Looking at it from the reverse: part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... governing bodies at MIT) in another entry, but for now, what matters most is ... persuade the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms, Sun Kim '11 (Next House), to let them

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

  Go Sox!

  

  one football game. I never went to any sort of sporting event at my high ... morning from a friend at Next House saying that she saw this above New House ... at it, it looked like it was strung between Tang (a graduate dormitory

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

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

  

  'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year ... 's really hard and complicated, feel free to email me at kfig at mit dot edu

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions ... known as ECs) will greet attendees at the door. Please note that no RSVP ... has been most helpful? What hasn't been helpful at all? And for those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  History at Indiana University, Editor of the Journal of American History ... memorials at the bombing site. This talk was one of 13 of The Resilient City ... Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the School of Architecture at MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... design at Ring Premiere. Then the committee hosts a reception for the class ... sophisticated. Or something. Rick makes a cheesy pose with his ring at my request

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  second title at NCGA MIT sophomore Julia Zimmerman won the all-around title at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championship. http ... better aim with a pistol than their counterparts at the Army, Navy, Coast

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  called the TRR, or trottoir roulant rapide, and is being tested at Paris ... . Wikipedia says, "At first it operated at 12km/h but too many people were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  showing them through code - vb + java. Are there similar programs at MIT that one could take? Well Justin, looking at the course catalog (updated for fall 2007! pfffft!), we offer at least math 10 classes in nonlinear

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... French-language students at MIT are benefiting from a breakthrough method ... her colleagues. Working in parallel with English classes at institutions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006