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• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  of classes, work, and free time. We got a four-day weekend for Columbus ... Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... especially noteworthy going on right now, let's just have a look at what's on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  cool events. On the Friday afternoon of every Spring Weekend, you'll find ... celebration on Sunday (see photos and videos of previous Holi celebrations ... One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  biological technique that helps you detect a protein and get information about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental ... just create new ideas. Well...she was right. Physicist Joseph Henry said something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  explorations of the first two volumes, maintaining its emphasis on methods of ... on for my UROP during IAP. Book #2: A Confederacy of Dunces by John ... home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  'm attending MIT. I've talked with many of you, either on the Discord or on ... car on top of the big dome. I like..do not know what else to tell you ... our mess-ups. Giving tours of MIT on the Minecraft server and talking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  mostly, I was on top of my problem sets. There was a funny incident, where ... in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... that hinge on our determination, our motivation, and if a new number can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  the same dorm touch, they merge into one! Note: The order of dorms is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... by Summer Moulder '26. Inspired by GetMIT by Mitchell Gu. Based on 2048

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  in the 20s because a large number of Macy's employees were new ... new every day.) Macy's is a huge department store, the main branch of which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... . As luck should have it, "the day" came on July 7th of 2008, and now ... cruising through the streets of Cambridge on his rusty old Mongoose mountain

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  reflect on the bigger arcs of my life—ending my tenure in HackMIT, jumping ... week. For starters, it was raining when I woke up. Also, I was running on like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  , where I met new people who were at most one connection away, a friend of a ... 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

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

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  RBA program on their website. And as always, if you want to hear more ... artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on ... something new (I had never sound designed on my own before). But the ... ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... – that the finite often comes clamping down on ideas of infinity – researchers fold to academic pressures and compromise on the quality of their

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 forwarded me this email: Greetings, On Saturday September 13th and Sunday ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  "]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I ... class was a traditional melody played on a dombra, and on a tour of the ... leaving school on Thursday, I bumped into a group of the English teachers

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  that's the kind of thing that tickles your fancy, then I have a nice website for you to visit. http://whitehatdesign.com/chat/ This chatroom

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... Consumers" where they talk about some new technology that's being developed by ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009