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• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... COVID -- after all, the majority of the nicer things about New Vassar are ... the strangely colored hunk of brick on the side of Vassar Street. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... buildings (I know of at least 3). The Harvard Coop sells Harvard stuff, the ... told anybody this, but I spent the better part of 3 months agonizing in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it ... Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an ... of campus, you see this: which is the side of the Haus. This used to ... moved to a more central area of the building. Want a picture with a view

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the ... coming. I hear that the interior of the new bathroom will be designed by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  and futuristic extensions of the human body, whether it was Doctor ... extensions for the purpose of added worker efficiency. Could you imagine how ... primarily rural, occasionally suburban, land of Kansas for the last 14 years

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... with this little ditty, to the tune of Ed Helms's "Tyson's Tiger Song

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course ... !" That's when I realized the power of what you can communicate expressively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... , and the next day, I had a UROP. One of Professor Griffith's research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work ... "Not the same few colleges," which also consumes a reasonable amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I probably won't forget anything about the state of American Civil War medicine ... " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the ... real time, using your cell phone. If just 10% of the prefrosh currently registered for CPW each upload 5 texts and/or photos over the course of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging ... of the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal preparing for MIT ... MIT, I know that many of you are currently in the midst of choosing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative ... blogged earlier, is also sponsored by the French department, part of MIT ... of higher learning in France, the Cambridge students are using Internet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  . :-) Okay, as we leave, we enter a hallway... at the end of which lies a special gem...! These bastions of the late-night stroll conveniently lie ... ) with helpful sustenance in the form of frozen novelties. Yes, folks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can ... appropriately called "8 Bit": A door mural of Link with a Triforce from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I ... leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008