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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... Campus) Andrew S. '07 (Random Hall) (Chair of UA Committee on Orientation ... The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to take 11.025J D-Lab: Development, since I have studied "issues of ... . Focuses on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... , but there are also pictures of the ruckus he caused on campus back in ... state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the ... of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life-shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... lot of it. =) This schedule was on the wall near the front entrance of ... fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes ... -overs and backwards skating. Unfortunately, on the 3rd day of class, I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  .017 Urban Space and Society (New) Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on how the spaces of ... . Concentrates on selected problems such as the welfare economics of "health" as a ... on control design. Extensive use of computer-aided control design tools

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  The Barkowitz Blog, which is both clever and informative on the topic of ... down in the Admissions Records Office, checking in on things there. Today ... buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through ... Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of ... great lecturer that he was one of two people ON THIS PLANET (or at least ... of Prof. Silbey happened during his lecture on Valentine's day - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... you are banging out songs on a mbung-mbung. My sister took one photo of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  extent you're looking to explore on your own.A team of admissions staff and ... will be on campus, so it would actually be pretty irresponsible if all of ... probably won't see much in the way of tooling, of students working on problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  most recent classes was a multidisciplinary course on the concept of ... took this picture while waiting my turn on Zipline #4 of the tour. I ... My summer internship ended on Friday, August 17. Today was the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  climb on the team scoresheet. We then took our pick of the water, Gatorade ... on Google Earth highlight how much it towers over the rest of the ... I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual ... controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  really bland, but with some spray-on stuff and crafty use of a Dremel tool ... considering what you save by buying massive amounts of the stuff you use anyway ... Charles River, just adjacent to East Campus. Now, I'm not much of a swimmer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006