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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors ... - that I will blog more this year. It's a promise to myself as much as it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... happens Please note that No-Shave-November is similar to, but distinct from ... down). Anyway: My Novembeard is now 20 days old, and I am happy to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he ... graduation, Riess chose to attend MIT, where he majored in Physics (Course 8 ... addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big ... tuesday 1987: Squeeze 1986: Ministry / Face to Face 1985: R.E.M. 1984: Cheap ... to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... year), the aim of this course is to provide the tools engineers need to ... , which I am, to some extent, quite grateful for, considering I couldn't fit

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... college's sister's uncle's first wife's second marriage, but to people I ... in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  pretty big deal to us. The annual blogger selection is like the Admissions ... . It's not a perfect metaphor. All MIT undergraduates are encouraged to apply. That being said, I have to bear the bad news that we're primarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T wastes in one day what MIT works an entire year to save." "Somebody

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... trip to Hasbro I chatted with Don Fardie, one of the model shop guys, and ... , before that summer, I still had to make it through second semester with Toy

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was dispatched to the snowman to assess the damage and administer any treatments ... traffic cone was deemed suitable. A message, addressed to the Anti

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  ominously thick package that included everything from housing lottery to ... regular 2-hour weekly meetings during the Fall term. Compared to Traditional ... it would be a great way to continue my love for art in a, well, tech

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008