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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn ... means I've got to take one for the team in order to share. Don't break ... quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  wished to be as invisible as possible, fearing I looked strange for ... music; apparently, it’s the “Balkan Dance”; and you’re waltzing in. For ... building in the United States I visited with 0-indexing for floors. "](which

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  discovered from an upperclassman chemistry major who worked in Dr. Tabacco ... ." very meekly. And in college it's especially awkward when you write an e ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her ... for a particularly bad day. The longer I lived in Boston, the more I ... In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone ... embellished garments and an umbrella that shrinks on command for space ... 've decided to make an art party for giants. On our agenda are giant name tags

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second ... . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a presentation for my French class on an influential author and ... uncharacteristic amount of work. So what ended up looking like an average semester is ... for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... itself for the drop in comments: So what have we been talking about with ... .' For almost ten years, we ran a little social club out in front of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  davis and helped me make a home in myself. i look for stories and help ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... and living in those worlds more comfortable than my own for years. but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... , just in case you forgot the structure of an amino acid or the definition

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  really you'd rather curl up in bed and put your shades down and never look ... circumstances, the right attitude. An example. In High School, I was the captain ... semifinals for the first time in our team's history. And I realize, only now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can remember" is lead author of an upcoming paper announcing the discovery of ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  “visual hashtags” for an infographic. In a nutshell, they used the text to ... parts of the poster the viewer zoomed in on, and for how long. This is an ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  Thing, and phrase it in the best and worst possible ways. an example could ... programs from events i’ve gone to in the past year or so. the exams were an ... have a special place in my heart because i was briefly in it for two

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I ... also visited a Nursing Home and an Orphanage and got trounced in sports ... , '14, Pleasanton, CA In June, my family went to Kauai, HI for a week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not ... shipped off the design to be manufactured in China. This is what returned to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... . That's why we're in the business." "Lowering the flame" For years, high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  an island in the middle of it,” says Karl Haglund PhD ’97, author of ... -minute multimillion-dollar gift from an anonymous individual known for years only as "Mr. Smith ... location, they contemplated many options, including an island in the Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• 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