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• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  individuals worst hit by a lack of access to safe drinking water. Worldwide ... challenges faced by the people of Jazmín. Here you can see houses on the hill ... 1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the ... class where one or two of them will surely be paused for a serenade by the ... In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the ... snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  far, the definition "a segment of three-base-pair triplets initiated by ... In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  count of the days that have walked by but i have stood and stood, and i ... lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or ... . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  fellow Poriferan who was at the drop with me.) Unfufilled by the lack of ... time for it and commit to it. By the end of the concert (sponsored by the ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] Last Thursday was THE perfect day. The sky was

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  - all of my history classes were taught by crazily-awesome professors ... one of the most awesome things you've seen? HAHA. Made by the same Kathy ... Berryline in Harvard Square and the new arrival of Red Mango by Symphony Hall

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... still. :) ... I sort of want to email admissions and ask "So thank you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  taught this term by Professor Robert Simcoe, who spends a lot of his time ... ;body corporate by the name of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (as ... decided by secret cabal meetings around an obsidian table hundreds of feet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  "...only uninterested people." I kind of hate coming up with titles ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  Swinging by the Big Apple this weekend? Come to one of our largest admitted ... to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... think approximately 85 showed up. The dinner is generously sponsored by

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  , even subtly, for better or for worse, by the effects of IHTFP. "Punt" and ... - The 2011 Brass Rat! by Chris S. '11 on Feb 9, 2009 '10 - The Class of ... The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... series produced by Boston’s public broadcasting station, WGBH – maybe my ... first episode tomorrow (watch it now by clicking here). “Eight high

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Poses and Pictures of Hands A data summary-esque analysis by Ceri ... piece of jewelry. Materials and Methods All photographs were donated by ... Brass Rat and/or the manicures of the student, as depicted by the hands of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by our office, but by students. We of course have our Facebook page, where ... trend - not by our efforts, but by the natural ebb and flow of how people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  syllables of your preferred interjection/expletive pairing. My stomach ... the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT ... music played by and for members of the science fiction fandom ... Mar, and the love song "Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)" by the Klein

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009