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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  friend of mine, currently a GEL2, I looked into the program and applied ... applied to this program, and so we all aspire to develop the capabilities of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• 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…

  

  travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  fiction (and reality?) Evolution of popular beard styles Universals of human ... a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  ... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  , they seemed to have trouble deciding which side of the hallway offered ... was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  -four designers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. One semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  for the best. i'll keep floating along, passing through my hall of ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  myself to my room at the end of the hall and proceeded to sleep for 12 ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  the grass, and apply an even layer of top soil. Mark the area with ... Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this afternoon, and saw ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Squadron of West Virginia University to be the National Headquarters of ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  hands of thunder clapping. The universe poured down in a divine onslaught ... Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating ... fabric of reality, that if it changes its schedule for even one day without

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006