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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an ... -like thing. Now, however, the two are used somewhat interchangeably, but most ... digress.) As you're walking from the main buildings over to the east side

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons was released. The ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... the wall. As somebody said during Amazing Race 6, the Berlin Wall is ... graffiti. The incongruity between what the city currently looks like and what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world. There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... the Mystery Hunt Website, you can check out all of the puzzles

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  post throughout the day to add pictures and videos).  Today, Friday, June 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted ... belong to the world.  The commencement address will be given today by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... classes’ Ring Deliveries (2022 and 2023), which I had the opportunity to ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6 ... teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  Hello! The 2.009 final presentations were two weeks ago, and it was AMAZING. If you haven't seen the 2.009 intro video please do, it's beautiful ... &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here ... was the provider? Where did they check their e-mail? Bloggers blogged ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  that "no one" at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in the humanities or the fine arts. Well, I don't know about No One, maybe he doesn't like the arts - but the truth of the matter is that MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  Boston from my hometown. I was soaked from the weather, completely unable ... glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and peanut butter ice cream with eleven toppings I ate at the dorm probably

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away. It seriously gave me the chills. We'll see edits tomorrow and then the final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  First up, The Economist profiled Professor Gruber's research on ... that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono. In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend.[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022