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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Building 7. And when you register for classes, you speak of taking 3.091, 8 ... proceed through 56 and 16 like we're headed for the Infinite Corridor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  PC intended for Matlab, and just tell you that it was hard. In the end ... remember coming to MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) and meeting people

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For ... -o-Meter). Check back later for some (hopefully cool) information about what actually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One ... East Campus courtyard has become the site of interesting happenings. For

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  . We ended up riding every one of the water slides, except for me -- I ... bunch of cute guys. What more could you ask for in a vaca?

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  answer for you. If you're honest about who you are and what interests and ... Michigan Wolverines (Go Blue!), and the Boston Red Sox (but I always root for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  's not as substantive as other newspapers but it's good for finding out ... prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a ... twenty miles tip-to-tail. We’d speed through the middle for a few minutes ... . For the whole evening we ate and chatted and the mother would emerge

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the ... to Nashville for the flight), where he was living (Simmons, the same as ... before (fast, especially for the South, speckled with laughter). He sat a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  world that the random firing of my neurons had created for me, but, for ... , for the most part, the words I said were helpful—that I was capable of ... determine if they’re feeling down. I think genuinely caring for the people

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... you signing in for?" - "beewa" - "sorry, which group?" - "B. W. A

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... she walks into Walker Memorial, three weeks into the semester, for her ... solutions that can help them, because for the first time, they actually have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... as much as I enjoy writing for the blogs, I spend the bulk of my time ... with my academic work. Even at moments when missing classes to study for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public ... astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on ... away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the ... four-course home-made dinner made for me, and one evening, I learn to ... for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  It's my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday ... RELEASES SPOTIFY WRAPPED!!! For those of you who've been following the blogs ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... . Shenanigans are worth it not only for the joy in the moment, but also for the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025