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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... be the start of our sophomore spring semester... That said, these

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ... train or a ferry. This means that the trips wind up being really ... brought our dogs to Revere Beach (the beach has its own stop on the subway

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome ... , both class of MIT '09, while friends prepared to open fire. The brothers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... ://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/03/26/his_mind_is_on_the_eighth_dimension/ 3/23/07: MIT Wants To ... country to participate in its "Just Jerusalem" competition. The contest aims

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I ... . And this, as you might be able to guess, was burial grounds. After I visited the ruins, I went to the nearby lakefront beach. That's France

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was ... , like, the best room ever."  "Oh not just any double, THE double ... events for all of the newcomers to our building. And while that promise

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  chemistry all the way down to senior fall (oops). I'd be naive to think that ... One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course <

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  ; CONFUSED IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO SKULLHOUSE A REWARD MAY BE NEGOTIATED ... who ends up with the proverbial "Kick Me" sign on his back? Well, that happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos ... in macgregor so I'm painting on clear contact paper try not to paint

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  some things can also be equally, if not more, fun :)']firsts![/annotation] ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  'll be fine regardless."]to be done[/annotation] and to have made it. I am ... many lovely people around me while doing it. So, here I am. About to be ... Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this ... -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... , washers) it can hold. According to Diane Soderholm, the Education Director

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to ... the M.Sc. in integrated immunology at Oxford. Two stories to share ... people, that would be the accomplishment of a lifetime... Jenn has already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to ... to the cloud. M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at ... . There's clearly no one required "pathway" to be an entrepreneur as some of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... Here's what I will see every Monday, Friday, Saturday, and many Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006