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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... -on-one conversation with him. Apparently not. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago ... , with me, the question of whether it is in principle possible to major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  a LOT of television to pass the time. I could hum The Simpsons' theme song before I knew how to multiply. So my view of the United States was ... junior year of highschool when an opportunity arose for me to achieve my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... World Cup - pretend to care about in spirit of global love): French Open ... Library in New York, and then brings thousands of sketchbooks to six other

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  goldmine of the smoothie industry. (Leave it to MIT to devote its resources ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San Francisco, just about to fly back to Boston to prepare for FAP (Freshman Arts

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... musician's union rejected our request to tape Jennifer Lai's portion of the ... photo of the sign. when i visited boston myself, i just had to go take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  .S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to ... on Thursday I made my way from 2.007 lecture to the second floor of the ... barely answer, since it was taking all of my mental capacities to open my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... of the crowd. Does that ever happen to you? [Class mumbles in the ... motto of this class is 'Say yes to drugs.'" 7.05, Biochemistry, spring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... didn't go to any of them, for one thing. Sorry to disappoint, but I guess ... Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a ... the end of orientation, I met with my advisor, Mr Kennedy, to choose my ... Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -Y mode allows you to visualize how “out of phase” (i.e., out of sync) two ... of the key ideas behind my project – using my little microcontroller to ... idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature ... drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do, and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to ... of power. And so now to the afternoon of April 2, and the arrival at ... [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all ... surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  of raccoons called MIT students.  As fallen leaves start to blanket ... amongst bloggers that HASSes are underrated. It’s a great change of pace to ... importantly, I have the headspace to just enjoy the sights and sounds of fall

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  reminds me of my to-do list, which is in my to-do notebook, which is ... 's an all nighter, I look forward to it, because all of my tasks are ... : What percent of MIT's total floor space, as in basement to top floor of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  love and hugging. I was Secret Santa to Caitlin '15. We share a love of ... clipped the toy to the front of my school backpack, and went to the library ... of thought to the gift exchange, the following (incomplete) list will

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... to not carry this fear of being seen as dumb in homework sessions. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to ... went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3 ... World where each area of the park is a different country to showcase that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  . Not all of IAP has to be crampons and ice axes though, there's still ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012