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• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this ... idea from Petey and a team assembled by him and Megan Fu (‘19). One of ... process is run by our Co-Editors-in-Chief (Alex Boccon-Gibod ‘21 and Jessica

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  Achievement Award, which recognizes extraordinary accomplishments by full-time MIT faculty. It is awarded by other faculty members, which means the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... came into my life: urop.guide! It's a great little website created by two ... by semester or department and search for keywords. ((Side note: It

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  for a ten day immersion into the epidemic. Taught by Dr. Bruce Walker ... ) to having conversations with women affected by the epidemic to being ... in South Africa is really defined by the conversations that I had. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  they’re done. Friends who’ve seen my agenda have been amused by just how ... reflected by my agenda, or I guess by the fact that I actually used my agenda ... the succession of these three pictures. By the end of the semester we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  couldn’t. So here I am, in a new city, surrounded by people I don’t know ... I wasn’t. If you couldn’t tell by the fact that my first definition ... exactly he meant by “hahaha” (I mean three ha’s?? Is that better than haha

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  you in the lines, and come by the City Hall Plaza around June 6 every ... children’s version by the ocean, the other is the adult version over the ... option is the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on July 4th by the Charles

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association (MIT EESA) participated in a cultural night run by MIT ... also attended a small concert by Basia and her roommates in a cozy venue ... !!) Currently, “UH-OH!” by Frances Stark is on exhibit there, involving a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  would not be swayed by other major options. Second semester freshman year ... classes about cities. By the process of elimination, there were no appealing ... Course 24-1 - Philosophy and Course 17 - Political Science. By chance, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don ... by live music to my ears is definitely a pleasant reminder of home. But ... concerts during the year performed by our very own students, ranging from the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , well, if we couldn't actually deliver tubes by drone (yet), then we might ...  classes anyway, so he and Andy just came by a bit early so we could quickly shoot ... /production process, and 100% of it was conjured by Loren, who I have come to suspect is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  . By separating the data center into "cold aisles" and "hot aisles", it ... ...connections. We also walked by this massive...thing: This is a giant box which ... the Ascend MAX TNT—a name which, by the way, is not something you should

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  campsite for a half hour, we finally settled at the fire pit by the cabin and waited. A little while later (after a few unsuccessful attempts by Barbie ... songs, and we all sang together rather loudly (or as loud as is allowed by

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  or biology faculty who received the email and decided to stop by to ... . '17 stopped by and gave me a morale boost when there was only half an hour to go, and some of my favorite guest lecturers from edX stopped by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  slightly more spiffy outfit choice: Ring Delivery (also blogged by Rachel ... Poses and Pictures of Hands A data summary-esque analysis by Ceri ... piece of jewelry. Materials and Methods All photographs were donated by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Athenians! Two hundred at least by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library brought to Egypt by the noodle*'s ancestors! How can we sleep for grief?" Septimus: "By

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  by the time the alarm declares that it’s 9AM on a chilly Friday morning ... synthesizer models (more on this in a later post). We swung by the Thai ... 29th Thanksgiving break went by in a snap. Thankfully, it was a snap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm ... space in their fridge. We had a New House exec meeting that night (by ... that my body is really not designed to carry a 20 lb bag of charcoal. By

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and ... week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... in the Media Lab (by attempted, I mean I got there and couldn’t find it

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  the theoretical physicists by the chalk handprints on their slacks.) At ... " by "artist-naturalist" Samuel Jaffe. Interesting. ANYWAY, I got home ... despair. "DON'T tell me," said, slightly muffled by the whole table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012