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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  composed symphony. How often does an opportunity like that come around?! The ... Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  written to vilify them. To this very day, much of the United Kingdom ... , this hack was much more widespread than these few photos can hope to ... Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  part of the ceremony, calm down. I don't want to give too much away ... Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much ... Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American-born children, eager to introduce them to their home away from home. I've been

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  processing is invaluable. The answer is one word. PS: Need to change my page ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  driving, but I'd be stuck walking to work otherwise... there's no subway around here and if you want to get around, you need a vehicle. I guess that ... !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty minutes. I need one of these. 8:05 - 8:17 AM: Shower. 8:18 - 8:27 AM: Respond to emails and decide whether or not flip flops are appropriate given

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution ... . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  what score you need to score to get in. But remember, scores aren ... filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  feel sick, and a need to be normal somehow. I pulled out my supplies and ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  teams to build our plane pretty much entirely out of composites (big ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  and enjoy Boston! There's so much to see and do, if art doesn't float ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... saw, "Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" just opened on January 18

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  needed help from someone. Anyone. I reached out to God. “God, please make ... snug. Out the window, giant snowflakes fell to the barren ground outside ... there, fighting the urge to push the orange nurse call button, I realized

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  friendly and helpful. (We're going to need that on Wednesday, when the ... So dear readers, I have finally made it to MIT. I���m writing this from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005