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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  accomplishment are already evident in the class: Sarah Dupuis of New Preston, Conn ... at the age of eight and now holds 20 national rifle championship titles ... investigating how math has affected the rise and fall of civilizations over time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella ... Museum of Fine Arts). On the outside it seems like it’s a normal

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes. Those connecting lines indicate that the general idea of the connected box is along the lines of the original, and the number of dots is the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... 've plumbed the details of syn addition, Markovnikov's rule, carbocation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... written here is from my own personal experience or the advice of others. If ... ” award – Walking around is, in my opinion, the most enjoyable method of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I ... Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... ceiling of Symphony Hall. We sat at the same table as lovebirds Thomas '05 ... has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on ... out that pset". So I emailed some of the new friends I was making and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative.
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  recruitment has been moved from the last weekend of IAP to the beginning of the school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women ... that none of the five sororities on campus even vaguely resembled the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots.  But first, let’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of 1958, a couple members of the MIT fraternity Lambda Alpha Chi were making

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups for some of the hacks, since the last time I went to the site. Well done, folks! For the curious, there are other sources of information about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  of the MIT community who have started companies or created products ... process. (You guys know how I feel about the thousands of vendors who ... with Michael about his vision for the next generation of college campus

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I ... this out and move on. Last IAP I spent almost all of the month working on ... stresful. I didn't get much sleep during the last week of IAP (or during the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so ... ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 ... period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... Sunday night (the 13th), in an apparent reaction to the suicide of internet

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of ... programs, including a nice shot of MIT's own Elena Glassman '08 winning the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the ... crowded, possibly one of the best views on the Cambridge side of the river

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar ... Professor of Comparative Media Studies Henry Jenkins (also Housemaster of the ... -line summary of the film: "It was a geeky, MIT-type of film." In many ways, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004