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• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  life that inhabits the Institute after dark. Anyway, I promised John that ... the MIT dining system, I'm a prototypical deviant from the Institute ... an actual MIT Press Bookstore across the street, the Coop sells all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I’m about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT’s…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the brine

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  air-insulated Van de Graaff generator (donated to the Museum by MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  rock. Pictures and information from: http://www.dw-world.de

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  . Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, a museum which celebrates activism and especially Black activists throughout Brazil's history. I loved the display of small-press ... [/caption] When last weekend came around, we went to Rio de Janeiro as a class to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ,9171,1655718,00.html Cordially Ysabel de León Assistant to Professor Diaz Here ... Theater september 12. tix available through harvard book store: http://www.harvard.com/events/press ... Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , the orchestra played Debussy’s Clair de Lune and a piece from E.T. the ... orchestra performed music from three John Williams film scores: E.T., Close ... universe.” During the ET soundtrack, he bobbed his head to the music. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  , welcome to the *Virtual* Killian Court Airport. Local time is 12 PM ET and ... their rings and received their diplomas. You can join our virtual ... seat for all photos, old psets, late night memories, La Verdes receipts

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Institute (RPI). After graduation he returned to Cuba to found the Mechanical Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department ... 1959, the National Inventors Council offered $5,000 to anyone who could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus ... classes on offer, that I'm surprised that students need to be incentivized

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  ). The symbol of the New Orleans Saints is called a fleur-de-lis. Manchego, a type of cheese, is named for a region in Spain called La Mancha

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans ... night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  French. She also wrote a book, Les Institutions de physique which she had ... but used terms like dy/dx. In his book, Nova Methodus pro Maximis et

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... were modeled after European cities with islands such as the Ile de Cite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... pasty, intimidating tour-de-geek-force) the writer decided "the will

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  Souter; scientists like Edwin Hubble, Robert J. van de Graaff and Brian ... , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  ://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226150-1,00.html Yet another article de-emphasizing the ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night. May 15-19: ISEF @ LA This ... out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017