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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  ." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... the middle of my Asian Dance Team showcase and watched in awe as ... ?? what) A couple days later, I started the data analysis (instead of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized ... fast. Crew at MIT is one of the largest sports, and our only Division 1 team. This year especially, the teams have been enjoying a lot of success

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... is studying, is that it's the opposite of the kind of learning that MIT ... that barely matters in the broad scope of life. But they're fun details

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  find MIT's Great Dome shrouded in white wrappings and the hubbub of ... . MIT Hackers did a little to welcome the Dome back to the world of sight ... Saturday, they transformed the ceiling of Lobby 7 into a massive black hole

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

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year might usually have. There's still something about the turn of the year and the impending end of the semester, though, that demands one gently

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with murals. Some of these are also animated! If you use the Artivive app and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class ... documented some of the sleepless night I spent the other day working on what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... experience.   The effort spans the early phases of product development ... , consensus building, and the value of communication.  The final project

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  over [annotation note="i have such vivid memories of the few hours i ... snapshot of my weeby highschool self; take the sheets of Hunter X Hunter ... my bed, or the precarious stack of volumes of Monster on my chest of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out there, the shiitake mushroom of the matter). Here are some of the things ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  has changed the world, told by one of the founders of the company. Check ... delivers tens of billions of daily web interactions on the web, (including ... Akamai and a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, tells it all - the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of ... moments, feelings, emotions—but more complex discussions of the human

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC ... ), technologists (Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales) -- the kinds of cool people you ... others. The talk by Jim Ross fits into the category of speakers I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007