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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  is best. If it's on the other side of campus, though, you're probably out of luck. Anyway. That's how fast all this bread went. But it's okay ... at East Campus working on a 5.111 (chemistry) pset with a friend. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  cause of... [goes on rant regarding public transit and Robert Moses ... Atlanta. Featured is one of my friends accidentally posing like a model for ... thing with Amtrak is that they don't own much of the rails they operate on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of ... class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus ... focused on the wrong things. Being the daughter of two architects, I looked

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  Boston have fun! There's a lot going on this weekend, including: Pulse ... :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History Month, come see a FREE show featuring the Logs, Harvard's Ku

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... beside a massively useful towel. And on the subject of nerd movies and ... Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  snapshot of it in orbit: It didn't do so hot on the re-entry... we lost 2 ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  +Planning, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. (Here are some statistics on ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school ... requires, after six core subjects, a choice of one of five concentrations

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  Fourth-of-July-ness). I had a truly "American" Fourth of July. I was on ... this one has Facebook on it. :) 0. Just a taste of the festivities ... My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  , here are some of my photos. This one is of a cat on a Senior House ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  on Central Park in New York City. eventual material: Some of the future ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14 ... : We have sections on family labor and standard of living in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  site on campus. It is an open-ended project which should be a lot of fun ... majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Now on to the athlete part. This past week has featured some pretty ... #5 (out of 7), and played games on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. In ... photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  night the Cantab Lounge hosts an Open Mic followed by a Featured Poet and ... and a potential spot on the Boston Poetry Slam Team that will compete at ... campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  Office is right off of the Kendall/MIT stop on the redline. Everyone ... seen people of all ages and sizes riding around on bikes here ... a fast food chain, it is a way of life for Bostonians (They take their

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  of the cell influence behavior. Biomechanics on different length scales ... before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... on mental illness…” that features &ldquo ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of rich men reclining on comfy couches while drinking and battling wits. The symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... of this residence hall. Another unique feature is the extensive use of ... :   That’s Keith Winstein on the left, one of the creators of qrpff, a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to ... welcome to attend this program on the hows, whys and whens of financial aid ... on the experiences of the UROP student panel as moderated by UROP staff

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010