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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in ... , I'm not graduating. Yes, I'm in the dorm for the summer. Yes, I'm in ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the ... an adorable cupcake from the Teacake Bake Shop in Corte Madera and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  only one with an odd taste in graphic design. I got this email in the ... Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP ... .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let ... author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , and Brian O’Halloran, an actor most prominently known as Dante in the ... in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  in the house. (For any potential employers reading this, I personally ... we are looking for new members! Check out our events below: All events ... Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  in their backgrounds and had an intense curiosity for my own background ... lifestyle and culture forever.  The students in the Philippines had an ... living in an impoverished neighborhood through camaraderie and positivity

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent ... in MIT’s ethics- sounds like an obvious question, but I think it ... buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  also exist likewise in all MIT dorms. However, I feel except for diehard ... : in my 5 semesters here at MIT so far, I have only used Matlab for ... convenience of being able to type an essay in the comfort of one's own room or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and ... ’s advice on how MIT could best explore its historical connections in this ... immediately endorsed his proposal: to develop an ongoing undergraduate primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  experiences with you and look forward to additional guest authors - including ... around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to fill in specific holes. Recent additions include Prof. Eric Grimson, our

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  microstructure. She has authored numerous articles on initial public offerings in ... worked for several years as a consultant. We also compared her work to an ... Student Council Teaching Award for excellence in teaching, the Sloan Career

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  statistics, deep learning, and optimization.   21G.038 (China in the News ... Wednesday for an hour, and even though I thought it would be impossible to ... energy and an AMAZING taste in music.   TAKE THIS PE I SWEAR TO GOD

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... study over Christmas and Easter break. In fact, for engineers, the exams ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be stuck in the blizzards on campus. [annotation note="This also means that I ... and class planning.[/annotation] So as I started looking at my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  . What if there was an in-universe explanation not just for why superpower ... is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their ... warning for violence, torture, abuse, death. An ongoing coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  , Ghost in the Shell, and Samurai Champloo (which is an anime about hip-hop and samurai). Professor Condry, being fluent in Japanese, translated for ... inspiration for writing the dialogue in his scripts. Anime and music are also

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014