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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... of the few lecturers in Chemical Engineering who hasn't yet been ... student center and jokingly informed me that he, along with the rest of 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk about this in public channels by residents, alumni, friends of the Haus

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle ... Standing Exam instead. Because of that, this semester was the first time I ... goals for yourself! All of this sucks me in hard, and on the days I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... plain sad. Anyway, three full weeks of the Spring Semester have sped away

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum ... a list of numbers like 2,3,9,15…, the running sum starts out at 0. You

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major ... living groups, all of the majors, 41 varsity sports, etc. Finally, divide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007