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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first ... without frontiers. The ______ Game This game takes the name of whoever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  yesterday afternoon: To the members of the MIT community, First, an update ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... residents could be shut out of the place they live and, in my mother's case

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling ... hang out with me sometime today, here are some of the places you might ... where I plan to be (and I really hope I don’t have any of the times drawn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  geometry prowess to explore the natural superiority of hamentashen. First, he ... , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into. I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... hockey sticks, chanting, and strange content scavenged from the depths of ... it every CPW and REX since since [annotation note="the first year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  City, California. The day of taping, I congregated in the first floor ... the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT ... year of college, the earliest you can apply to transfer to MIT is during your second term of study. Students who at the time of entryto MIT will
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... , and let the whole thing simmer for two hours. It turned out alright and went over pretty well, even though nobody quite got the hang of using the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  of the cinematic achievements of Birth of a Nation, your first reaction ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... brilliant use of the close-up, cross-cutting, rapid-fire editing, the iris

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for ... India, the Cycle Ventures students are looking to implement some of the

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... stretching the visual capacities of storytelling, creating narrative networks

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... from the end of IAP:

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... . You just can't top the experience of spending that much money on ice ... .03 (Vibrations and Waves) exam of the term, but once that's over it's officially

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I ... first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  almost 6 weeks. I saw one of the first friends I made when I got to MIT, a ... puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  ’s Metropolis, then you’ll know that it was one of the first ... event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the ... ! You may wonder how the showing of a classic silent film could pack an

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013