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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  secretly wanted to do this. ...get special seats at fractal Planetarium shows... ...stargaze... I got up at 2am to take a look at Jupiter and ... first time in eight years, and crashed into a bush at full speed. I lay

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  morning I left home for college: at the end of the summer, I would fly ... around my room – at the Manchester United poster on the wall, the stuffed animals at the foot of my bed, the Tweety Bird bedsheets –   You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT ... " under "life@mit" at mit.edu) which will soon enough connect to the ... directed by MIT theater arts Prof. Jay Scheib over at Emerson's Cutler

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  “So, you gonna play?” I said, raising an eyebrow expectantly at Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... showing at the World Cup, that was probably a mistake.) The other team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  your house, the car is at the shop, and you don't have any firearms. What ... design at neighboring Northeastern University - just sent me this Kotaku ... Band or Guitar Hero drums against the undead is almost over. Here at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  was right. Gillespie is now the chef and a partner at Woodfire Grill ... their wonderful meals at Kevin's Woodfire Grill (I'm jealous). MIT is ... School of Engineering at MIT. Wow, huh? Maria, a longtime elementary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped ... Carin '13. Better late than never, though, right? Here it is at last ... villages we looked at villagers’ lifestyles: how they cook, what they use for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  ’ve had a lot of successes (at least judging by how quickly my cookies ... a little different here at MIT. Sure, I’ve done generally pretty well ... fine. You can’t be awesome at everything, all the time; it’s much more

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  show their work at LVAC do not necessarily have to produce any new work ... works of art which could only be created at MIT. All of Tavares's work ... LVAC), and Leila Kinney (Director of Arts Initiatives at MIT, who runs

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  't actually that funny at the time. Sorry, Dustin.) The point is that they ... lecture at MIT (9.65, Cognitive Processes), expecting the Lightning Bolt of ... haven't changed much at all, there are still a few things I hadn't done in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... of the only people I knew in Burton-Conner at that time was Spam. But ... 've gotten to know my new floor like my family and am so at home here that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how ... out what I really thought about MIT. At the very least, it was a 20 ... back, it absolutely has been. I've had a show at the radio station for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  many people at my school, and many other people I knew, the college essay process was Not Fun. I can certainly agree with that when looking at the ... say that sometimes, mostly for kicks. People get angry at me for it) The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  a hockey-related event almost every day; for hours at a time. And it ... . After three flights of stairs and at least five double-doors, you will ... either hit someone with a ball, or dodge a ball thrown at you, catch a ball

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  at MIT. As is often the case with one-person shows, Ms. De Cari was ... simply because the story is indeed based on Ms. De Cari's own experience at ... events portrayed in the play, and at the show's end, I felt that

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever ... hated it, because all I wanted to do at that moment was go back to sleep ... find their place at MIT so there were no women living in sorority houses

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business ... electroplushies at this SEBC event? they will be taking us for dinner after. If this ... attached the original e-mail from the SEBC: At Entrepreneurs Showdown, we

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  dark screen flashes the large bulky letters at the same time, or when it ... -locked thirty-somethings in Grateful Dead t-shirts. The sold-out show, hosted at ... works as a developer at MIT GAMBIT. He and co-director Kari Juusela, Dean

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  , and Transgender) Community, so the Rainbow Lounge at MIT is the home to ... - present resources available at MIT and in the surrounding community ... privileges and borrow any of these materials for a few days at a time. There

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009