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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of ... things through her. Things like hacks :) It was a matter of some dismay to ... find MIT's Great Dome shrouded in white wrappings and the hubbub of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people ... timelines of multiple people's photos at once. Over 120 people have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... -around mayhem of everybody waxing poetic about their life experiences hoping someone out there is reading, learning something, or just caring out of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is: # Be subtle. Don't leave evidence that you were there ... saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT ... of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a ... other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games (my dad's from Chicago, so most of them were Cubs or White Sox), maybe

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... -efficient cars, as well as a look at MIT's Friday-after-Thanksgiving tradition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having ... experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... , I'll cover Hall Rush with 5E Rush photos. Most of these are actually ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan ... of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super-secret pre-screening of Joss Whedon's next film, Serenity (trailer here). Of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted ... ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics that continue to organize small modern factions of alternative thought

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... things, you get a community of igloo-building, solar

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006