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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with ... and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  , the careers of many others - would not be complete without Wikipedia ... the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and ... hard at work getting the magazine, which is entirely student

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  during the rough spots of the semester, when every second had to be used at ... always have very similar academic interests, and so we've always taken the same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  basically going to be my MIT essays copied into the UC portal and an easy ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the ... before that glorious 12AM EST deadline. I remember the frantic click

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  happened because it gave me the financial privilege to be able to stay in ... , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on ... "] Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave" - Beaded Reproduction[/caption] A quick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  the text THE WEAK SHALL BE EATEN.  REX felt like CPW from 2019, when I ... protagonists at the edge of a precipice, reviving traditions that may not be the ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  what we’re imagine to be a difficult journey back home to the sea. Then ... TURTLE!!!! AHHHHHH The summer before our freshman year, we were walking with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  Undergraduate Admissions. That roughly translates into being the person with a ... listen closely you should be able to hear the laughter coming from 3-107 at ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where ... not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  --I'll probably be in lab all week with the Design/Build/Fly team as competition day ... latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the apostrophe. So it would be "the abacus's beads." BUT if you have a common ... DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  Sox fans are okay with being called Yankees. I don't mind the names, it ... here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  sometimes we forget about the third one. We might be too busy to go to APO ... to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34-101. I was moving quickly down the hall last Thursday, not paying attention

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  submission with it, because if it sold, I would be dedicating the next two ... novel.  Spring semester started. I promised myself this would be the ... Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time basking in the sunlight and stuffing our faces with food and snacks. Elysa

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015