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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... to tradition and propriety very much at MIT - the closest thing we have

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  our lives. One such distinction is the 찜질방 (jimjilbang), which refers to ... showed me...it might be time to pencil in some downtime. Although the ... has a history dating back to the 15th century. The most traditional

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  public bath. Essentially the idea is, "welcome to Kyoto; in order to get ... cramped. The temple is built out in the open air, next to a tree ... shinkansen platform, but not before stopping on a landing to take in the beauty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  . Also, don’t be like me and buy so much stuff in the coop that your ... in what appeared to be a maze, I saw the dome, and I had a moment of ... twenty people that there is no wrong way to do CPW. My host at the time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot ... year. 2.670 is the class that almost every Mechanical Engineering sophomore takes during their IAP since it leads into 2.007, one of the most

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  days to account for the way Christmas, New Years, etc fall in any given ... dent in that to do list! So if you've emailed me any time since the new ... short hours after the official kickoff to get instruction in driving the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  question is very specific to your case, you may email me at benjones at the ... wrote: "I am about to take the SAT II subject tests, is it possible to ... the SATI, on the application, the writing section is said to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... Wancura, "The Gas Gauge" // Anisha Gururaj, "Gems of Humanity" // Maggie

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... the person in the water and pull them back to safety. They literally ... walked in. Click here to see the brochure. [embed]https://youtu.be/vVIKaj2X

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  borrow some rain boots please. The thing I hate most in life is soggy socks ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  . Many students will join Freshman Learning Communities to take much of the ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... Columbia as he is helping to develop the University's master plan. It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  have no obligation to change anything, but as the comments come in over ... want to be a real leader in the world my generation will soon inherit ... pipeline impacts the environment too much to warrant its construction despite

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... are the most occupied: you can see that 2-4 pm is the most common time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... to their proper locations in the timestream. (Side note: I really enjoy ... , and Brian O’Halloran, an actor most prominently known as Dante in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not ... . The real lesson here, in the context of the ELL, is to evaluate all the

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  , though the theory is known as the Big Bang. What we are supposed to keep in ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  ="87416" /] Much later in the evening, when Kano finally made it to the hostel, we ... . GTL (Global Teaching Labs) is the specific program that I was going to ... having to plan this solo trip out. In the midst of planning my trip, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped ... foreign schools"][/annotation] started today— much to the dismay of my

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  postpone project work to clear the time. In general, my philosophy is not to ... ’m supposed to be enjoying myself, frequently I have work in the back of my mind ... that’s unique to me. The middle of the semester is a perennially bad time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in ... . Music and laughter. There is so much to see, to feel, to live in. To write

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021