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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... predictions of the event. And so, on November 10th 2012 at 04:19:53 PM EST, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ;congratulations on your debut!” There appears to be some sort of argument of ... , i.e. likely involvement on the part of a belligerent country) were found on traces of biological fluids on remaining personal effects of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  Stata Center July 20, 2007 On the day before the release of Harry Potter ... . Building 9¾ from Harry Potter November 17, 2005 On the night of the ... many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  to some and hover on the fringes of others, and how there are always ... My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... evenings of the semester (overshadowing even the 6.00 midterm). I was on time ... slices of fruit with two grapes on top. We became Burchard friends! After

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground, we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get ... . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  . The lab also focuses on the production of a biodegradable plastic with ... The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  of sense. You may well discover after spending 4 years on another ... Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Alchemist sculpture that sits in front of the student center on MIT's campus ... . Basically, we’re trying to push the upper limits of size on automated ... a circle on top of that, and one on top of that--eventually, you might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  . Next week, we move on to worldbuilding. As part of the storytelling ... to video game The Last of Us, and is now working on a fantasy trilogy ... , the class went on break, and she signed our copies of Friends With Boys

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... because it is on the west half of the fourth floor of Next."]wing of Next ... because the place had meaning on its own, but because of the memories that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  ever entry on MITblogs without posting a picture of myself, didn't you ... list, somehow. I'm working on getting off of MTG. But I keep myself on ... to the following e-mail on the MITblog list, from one of its younger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  Birtolo's first novel is now available on Amazon -- all of you fantasy fans ... at work on his second novel. Another friend of mine from my undergrad ... Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they're Canadian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  on and on and on, but i won’t. [annotation note='i think the piece of ... , cooked a variety of things on the grills, and much more: credit: Tyra E ... of a lightbulb. And you can quote me on that.   Wait, just wait

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the entire infinity of a drizzly afternoon, feeling like an intruder on ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... placidly through her alarm. As we dined fancifully on glasses of cold cereal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been ... a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  rolls, Windows 98, and messily penciled sonatas of elementary algebra on ... mean, I interject on behalf of you since you can't leave a comment on ... 've splurged a semester's worth of energy, motivation, and Googling on amateur

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that ... . The mission of the office is to provide excellent services and programs ... the academic success and personal development of undergraduates. Staff