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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief ... campus. And then there are those who just wind up on campus through some ... FSILG&D Challenge: This one's likely to go up very soon, as the awards

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  's always refreshing to see people get up and leave during classes for ... college is for right? So three weeks into MIT, intramurals were set up ... not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  (I am not that lame) because this is about the start-up company that ... johnston who took publicity pictures for the team) So every ridiculous thing ... . And for this project, they got it. (Google "Dance Floor") But they also

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  I really, really want to take each of the classes I'm signed up for ... student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... little sad. But there are still some cool things coming up that I'm looking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  breathe every once in a while. I've had nightmares about turning up late for ... up taking my laptop and driving all over Seattle looking for a wireless ... Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  , should I just sign up for one for the lottery, or do all three? The usual ... Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... board for a job opening as technical editor for the first computer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... day, which was neat for me because I was actually born in Philly. My parents moved to Baltimore when I was two, which is where I grew up. But now

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... was really supportive and helpful to me back when I was running for UAVP ... , abbreviation or acronym), giving campaign advice and showing up to watch my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  dye their hair. It sounded up my alley; I love writing, and this would ... off. During fall the producer and I met up intermittently in different classrooms around campus. She asked for my ideas. Something deep? I suggested

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  the delicious dishes that people have cooked up. For Conner 2, my floor ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  . 3. Spending the last moments up to the AP Statistics exam whipping and ... driving up the whole eastern United States and realizing, standing in my ... launch day, the thing went flying up in the air, and we all stood in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... McDonald's hacking MIT? This is like the Zapruder film for reflexive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  than good. So here are some things I've been up to over the last few ... name for a general inscriptive strategy, one that uncovers the ... to prepare for reading and selection, which has already begun for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how ... falling down. And then picking myself up and moving forward one silly ... those steps was moving off campus. And that is why I moved off campus for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  hour and do nothing but read. Usually we end up staying for much longer ... friend who's at the gym waiting for me--well, I can't just not show up, can ... Socrates. So much for philosophy. books/making time to read/coping with life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  side 2015 calendar today at wotes.mit.edu!!! And pick up/pay for ... dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some ... and also raising money for the Big Jimmy Scholarship Fund.  The Fund

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... pieces of vegan chocolate cake, to be had. The birthday girl lapped up

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014