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• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the Inside Scoop To:…

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It’s raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway, because today is the grand opening of Anna’s Taqueria on campus! Anna’s Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  Dear Prospective 2020s, You've made it this far, and EA decisions are coming out in a couple hours. Yuliya K. '18 made a lovely post compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as well as our good friend Garrett ’11, were working on something awesome. Well, we finished the…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• 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 informative, interesting, and often inane e-mails. As she does a great job keeping up with her inbox,…

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

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again started using the “c” word, “closure”, the all too convenient word people use about moving on. Closure has become…

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  . So, hello. It’s ever so nice to meet you.  

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  to Dr. Bigelow’s address. Then followed Felton, and Mr. Savage was

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  my bash shell*. *For the non-6-3s among you, shell customization is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  Loving Your Money. Topics covered include W4s, 401k, HMOs, stocks, credit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather and such. Then she…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield’s trip to the White House to join President Obama…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It’s Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey, I should blog! 7:40 PM: Erons ’12 walks into my room. Erons is not wearing shoes.…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  Today, as I was walking down Mass Ave after work, I saw some Aero/Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 quad, and…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the Institute was quite literally like no other place on Earth. All I did was listen…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I don’t know why that deserved an exclamation point. Probably because I don’t have any problem sets due…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  So, it’s the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I learned quickly after joining the…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11am. I don’t…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  My sister graduated college a few weeks ago, which meant two things: 1) I learned the Latin word “vincimus”, which means “We conquer” and sounds like a house elf from…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday’s New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat McGovern ’59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) (“the world’s leading IT media, research and exposition…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006