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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor who resolves to download himself into the System after mortality

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  I like it: 7.013 (Intro to Bio) has been kind enough to assign psets ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to respond. College admissions offices employ standard USPS snail mail to ... doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  attaching themselves to my parents who absolutely refused to let them into the house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday ... and in exasperation had gone to stop & shop and purchased her first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  only does he admit us to MIT, he actually really cares about us after we're admitted, as well. His office is almost always open to us (assuming he's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  Classes are saying farewell as it's finally starting to feel like ... , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Steve Kelch '08 as my running mate. There were three tickets. We lost to Andrew Lukmann '07 and Ruth Miller '07. I intended to write an elections entry, but never got around to it. I do have these photos, though. Me

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  Wow, most exciting/eventful two days ever. I'm very sad to say that 2.007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... to apply for one of these awards, just write that you are applying for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... year like I was last year, I am looking forward to helping out with rush ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even planning each meal down to the ingredient – until one big question remained: Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a ... gremlin brain was endlessly fascinated by it. I dragged my family to see the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... , doing so much. if i began to write everything that needed to be done, it ... trips to the embassy and the photo booth and the vaccination centers and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never ... with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020