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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... open this door you will likely receive a shock to the palm of your hand

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various ... my students experience the same feelings of inspiration and confidence ... . Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised when I was occasionally out of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the ... battery cells, and even testing the results of a Nature article. This year ... a mini photo essay of what's been going on over the past couple of

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  asked more or less the same thing during non-pandemic times. The first two ... preferences about the domains of your required recommendations —  we want one ... than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  journal. This blog, in particular, covers the first 4 stops of my travels ... , and after the short program, the first segment, wasn't even sure I would ... (the German equivalent of a high school) in Essen --  Leibniz Gymnasium

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT ... port of call - namely, the offices or dorm rooms of anyone willing to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... also stopped into O'Naturals, the nation's first organic fast food chain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at ... the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer ... this a bit more this IAP. I’ve liked the feeling of stretching my body

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... be wondering how the night of the ring delivery unfolded. It went

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... ,’ which means something completely different at MIT. The first birthday

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set ... DETERMINED to be hardk0re that he sings a song about it, to the chagrin of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... /sugar/salt solution (7.06). You won't absorb water without salt due to the structure of ... structure of the transporters in your intestine (7.06). 2. The reason you feel

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  first trimester grades, even if we already have them.) Please send us the ... 2 of the application, except that we're only looking for current ... ; Notes deadline of February 15th. This is okay. You should choose the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  -Reported Coursework Form from the Part 2 of the application, except that we're only ... deadline of February 15th. This is okay. You should choose the option " ... Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  , more personal setting but also got to sit directly in front of the stage ... , guys...) After a few minutes, the number of flashes died down, and Bill ... . The last bit of the program was dedicated to Q&A. Ranjeetha '13 and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... . Once. And that pretty much constitutes the entirety of my previous

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... thinking.   It was in the process of doing so that I discovered my true

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007