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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  required. Our task, as we see it, has been to consider how the Institute may ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  about our students—how interesting they tend to be and how interesting ... -winning writers on the faculty. I was surprised to learn that, apparently, MIT has ... 's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  might understand why. On the first day of classes, I had Intro to Biology ... mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... life taken an Intro to Biology class. He also means that he was on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  small seminar-style classes heavy on reading and discussing the primary ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... -- I can go into his office and plop down on a chair and whine about my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  of the prod staff how they approached bringing Richard III to life ... them to talk about how they rose to the challenge of designing the show ... to take on the challenge. Megan Nimura, who designed and edited the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  lifted; I want to cross the hallway, knock on everyone's doors, and play ... -down, I want dinners together, and parties at midnight; I want things to get ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  's pretty magical about this dish is seeing how quickly so much liquid gets ... stores over the course of two weeks. It was also quite the mission to get ... to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... Hahvahd University). Thanks to a raging downpour, the audience bordered on ... musical organization on campus, in addition to carrying out the standard

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help ... on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... 't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... several occasions, we took them out to a hot pot restaurant on Friday night ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... befell us, and on top of all of that, it seemed like our classes decided to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  , which to date has included topics on global warming and a unit on public ... It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  Mitra always has snazzy photos on her blog (though I am sad to hear about her recent camera issues), while mine, so far, is just text. So on ... about the door to my office. Stop by if you're ever in the area!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... basically I'm getting paid to travel around Europe and interview MIT interns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  campus to get to Walker Memorial where the entire auditorium will fill with nervous MIT students. I'll probably put on my head phones and listen to some upbeat music to get hyped up on my march over. Pray for me. Thanks.

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  you...I should probably get back to work. My last calc midterm of the ... am sufficiently focused enough to get work done. Wish me luck with ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  Intramural Table Tennis team. Or learn how to dance through MIT Ballroom ... On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... your dreams!" An ambitious mission, no? This description is almost

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006