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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be ... best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler ... visual feats. Not to mention their inventions can be applied to medicine ... nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... to be going to this production. But we were going for free! :-) And we

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  things about MIT is being able to apply the concepts you learn within the ... not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture ... -effective and easily installable shower system units will be implemented on almost

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  Judge Washburn asked to be enrolled as members. John A. Lowell takes a ... public in New England to give way, on the ground that the Union should be ... be drawn for the present so as to place them with the seceders. Still

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... /No Record is a great time to do this – to adopt the “I want to be busy, but ... would have to be made, given the axiom “Anna is physically incapable of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  fleeting fifth-grade dreams of being a mechanical engineer. When I was being ... . And so that’s my first point—that you can get into MIT without being an ... him squarely in the eye. “Heck yes I am. It’ll be like Mythbusters

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  " button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said ... may have never stumbled across otherwise. You get to be the dude or ... , and that it will not be fixed because Facebook Like is the Glorious New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  ago, I had just completed my final exams, which can only be termed as ... than two months, I will be a senior at the Institute. Sure, I guess all ... rationalize, and MIT especially so. There will be sleepless nights, there will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  the fall. They say it's not because they want to be together, but ... happened to be the same decision," Chandler said, When we asked the twins ... nice to be able to share this with her," said Taylor, 18, who is one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  three years of this stuff, I should be entitled to a month or two of just ... absolutely nothing better to do, though, so I'll be posting stuff like the ... years ago (SERIOUSLY THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT I'M NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS), got

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  :30 am A panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share their ... . Open Houses Multiple open houses will be held over the weekend. These ... you too. Current students are great resources so don’t be afraid to ask

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming ... you may be used to. Anywho, I was wandering down the infinite corridor ... students don't have to be here. If you visit in January expect to see a lot

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits ... replied back, agreeing. The only other option for the night being homework ... that the executive board won't be reconsidering the decision. I posted a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during the summer, asked if she would be willing to let me visit her lab. To ... particular, I really enjoyed being able to talk to the undergraduate students

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  leadership in all aspects of life - be it social, academic, technological - and ... of the Leadership Training Institute. It was so exciting to be a part ... had to be organized and taken care of. Now, in March, just shy of a year

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... build toys without a shop, so the powers at be went out and bought a ... , and helping with odd-jobs around the shop. I, being the eternal tourist

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

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  can be so much more than a mess of fabric! For example, Amanda Parkes ... can be discharged into any portable device later. What better way to ... hat to be a pre-show hit! So hold on Tim Gun, it looks like you are

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  sympathy. I'll probably just be a jerk and say something like "I never get ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... would be to get better because there wasn't any possible way I could feel

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  around Being Stuck In This Crummy Place, Not Caring That You're Stuck In ... prerequisite that you have to be a great photographer to be a blogger? Even my ... good about being female and it makes us feel more comfortable with

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008