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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  from the the "ashes" of Ashdown and create a new vibrant generation and ... at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  community of students with similar backgrounds to rely on throughout your time ... Interphasers who would go on to become some of my best friends, Carlos and Fabián ... strategies to deal with it early on has been one of the most invaluable

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  on the other side. I sit in the cold, unfeeling halls of New Vassar ... COVID -- after all, the majority of the nicer things about New Vassar are ... the strangely colored hunk of brick on the side of Vassar Street. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  New Hampshire on my couch in the sun, alternately working on neglected ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of posting patterns on the blogs. But when I ran it earlier this morning, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. Grimmelmann is flat-out one of ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have been affected by this - this tragedy has been on my mind every waking ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  towards home plate and asks you to describe the acceleration of one point on ... So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ; New York: On our way back from DC, we stopped by in NYC to hang out with ... Pinos (@erickpinos) on Jan 13, 2017 at 10:22pm PST In DC and New York ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  designing a new departmental facility for the Course 1 and Course 12 on a new 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

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

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of MIT's new Initiative on Technology and Self, which is working to ... Brian and I set out for the front steps of MIT on Wednesday evening, and ... on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the ten students sit in a circle of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... really fast and dodging all the punches that the '08 through, and as a ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Associate Head of House apartment installed somewhere on their floor, which is ... -based, so they have varying levels of hallway and room culture. On some floors ... , so putting traditions on a scale of 'what is important and what is not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  discover a whole new territory. Make your mark in whatever way you can - on ... This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the ... from this experience: MIT values different parts of its mail depending on ... shiny new envelope, there isn’t a whole lot of really neat stuff. Once you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  ). we also decided on having a rental car for four of the eight days we ... after an hour of dancing on a speeding bus. everyone had the chance to ... . on top of that, the music was still pounding in our years, and the bus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  , here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT ... Wakefield and Nomi Sparks. The sixth edition of Fierce Forever will be held on ... one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been ... me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• 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