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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  longer welcomed with open arms by the Greek community because, to be honest ... 'm going to be honest. BUT, I'm also going to try really hard to not make ... up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first(I did). While writing it, we decided it would be fun to exchange the words ... okay for portions of my thesis to be under a  Creative Commons - Non

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , accompanied by her brother Steve and Darlene Washington as the ASL interpreter ... , and the nation, to do better. So I wanted to make sure we shared it here ... official captions, can be found here. ']copy[/annotation] of the video below

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... needs to be something substantial. Not "look, we got Killer Mike at MIT. I ... of keyboards and encourages people to be mean. You get fed rage from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  ? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well ... I humbly consider to be the most superior Brass Rat ever. (Hee.) My ... 's holding a scroll to represent knowledge, and a globe to represent the way

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  .06 this semester, so I would only be able to take 7.18 next semester when I ... Fall 2019 I'll just be a course 7. And I didn't even have to fill out a ... last week when I was trying to get my [annotation note="On my way! to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... chairs. thanks guys. RIP to me also for even being a room assignment chair

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  awesomeness that make me glad to be at MIT (not to mention projects like this ... place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... topic by a couple hours. I think he has my office bugged!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  the vast majority of applicants, most of whom were qualified to be here. To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  breakfast can only be cooked and consumed so fast, so by the time I got back ... great. You don't HAVE to take classes, or even be back at MIT- more ... IAP is perfect- 2 weeks in December wouldn't be nearly enough to unwind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and-chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear! Panic! To address the worry that follows the question what if I actually

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  the team's actualized potential to be good o = the offense d = the ... - may be able to help me further refine this model to account for ... Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... by a woman, to represent 2007's even gender ratio. To prevent such ... simple but meaningful, I will be proud to wear it for the rest of my life

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens ... , and instead of being forced to eat spaghetti with no utensils, there was ... transitioned to our group project that we will be working on these next four days

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  's lab that she would in fact be leaving MIT to move to New York with her ... trying to make me call them by their first names--one of my friend's moms ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  working on his own project, which appeared to be some elaborate three ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012