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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  chat called stitch n bitch! It was full of MIT students who liked to knit ... was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... about the idea of a club dedicated to various forms of stitching. The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... quality of “cool and memorable” to certain things was an illusion you’ve now

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... have to face some of the major issues that many universities encounter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  potentially rake in tens of thousands of dollars. Reply to no-reply corporate ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time ... occasionally refer to this Starbucks as an extension of their offices. Not that I ... dead as she feared. The EMS team that responded to the call was kind of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  expecting tens of thousands of visitors to MIT’s campus. The jam ... coinciding with my experience of moving out of Texas. It’s exciting to be the ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to ... probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... too cold. But clearly, this was way too good of an idea to abandon

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  're making your college decision. A bunch of them are mine, which has less to ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...n_friday.shtml Power of suggestion (Sam): One way to tell if you belong at MIT http ... cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat ... evening following our graduation. Just to the left of the moon, an apple

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... .  Soon, the taping of the game began. Everyone who was still waiting to ... was preparing to be out of the country for a month and was too busy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to ... . As of right now I have two big posts I want to make, “being black in ... Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  one of the best ways to enjoy it. if your fast walking procedure ... each have 26 bones and a ton of joints and muscles to provide balance and ... the form “of course humans have x body part to perform y function

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  ” Translation: “These are just some of my thoughts” Explanation: According to ... Explanation: ‘Signal-to-noise ratio’ is a measurement of the strength of a signal to the strength of its background noise. For example, the further

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... , Euripedes - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library brought to Egypt by ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  at most 1.5% to the bottom line. There was a lot of skepticism ... the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a prefrosh. I’m curious to see how your view of me changes once I start talking ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  went to the career fair for all of the free swag, and free swag was what ... to get the attention of the representative. While maybe not as ... hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008