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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  , I was greeted by a column of enthusiastic Apple employees while ... cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  't know about you but I was quite disappointed by the endings of both ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  on for my UROP during IAP. Book #2: A Confederacy of Dunces by John ... by Orson Scott Card Pretty much my favorite book of all time. It ... on my list thus far: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... the work to date. Script Kiddie 101 The primary portion of this internship was to do quite a bit of work with Metasploit, a hacking framework

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  go home, by which I mean the fall of 1993 - smoking cigarettes under ... this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of being the Undergraduate Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... talking at the debate, watched by opponents Dwight Chambers '07 and Chris

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun ... so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus rides, so here’s those interspersed with some photos of Iceland (that

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... but haven't had the chance yet--I've heard some of his later piano ... awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too ... of my week.  Completing those psets will not make me satisfied. I will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  , by the way, the most adorable cover of the creepy Christmas classic ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  No. 1" by Sofia Gubaidulina "Am I Evil?" by Metallica "Children of the ... Minor" by Bach "Pathetic" by Lamb of God "Achilles Last Stand" by Led ... [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true. Believe it or not, MIT has

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  hours of cutting dry pasta by hand. Here’s a photo: Set Theory: Not a ... admired puzzle in the Hunt, judging by the number of Codexians who were ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But subconsciously, my amygdala was processing all kinds of emotions. These emotions ... . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible ... say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... selection process. There are so many different requirements at MIT (the HASS

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  from 10.302: Transport Processes. "There are two ways to look at this ... Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005