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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www ... entrepreneurial path. He was present at the creation of Thinking Machines, the ... I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs.   ISEF went great ... with CMS/Civic classmate Rodrigo, who now runs product at Neighborly ... med school.   My flight was delayed due to ongoing construction at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  multicolored lights of Boston reflected in the Charles River at night, especially ... . Random Hall had pancakes at 2:17 in the morning. In fact, they had lots of ... Battle of the Bands or 2 AM at Random Hall. I don't like everything about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... " competition. At Curious George (where many of my friends went for the Book 5 ... So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split ... light? I certainly did at the end of our tour because our zoologist was ... eternity staring at tarantulas. (It turned out that one of the other groups

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  at http://studentleader.mit.edu/ Below are just a few highlights of ... words of wisdom for survival at MIT. MIT offers many workshops, programs ... participated in the program say it’s one of the best things they’ve done at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  getting at is that PKT is a mix of being able to have an awesome time when ... with their own interest, yet they all embody a spirit of brotherhood at ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of ... common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  Centre of the Peoples of the Amazon before then. At the Cultural Center ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  facts here. People at MIT may make a lot of robots here, and there may be ... -genius overnight, let alone at all. In honor of my 19th birthday (today!), I've been ... Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  hard together, harder than we think at any other time of the year ... friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at ... the Big Game and at this school are a kind of "type 2 fun". Here is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anyway. *** The most common piece of advice I've gotten since arriving at ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  at something that complicated and sort of maybe understood a bit of how ... One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at ... concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... subject at hand, but these aren't the type of intense supervisor I want to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  component, down the leads of the plushy, and are soldered to magnetic snaps at ... . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... them--if your school has AP/IB, you should take at least a few of them in ... DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006