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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when MIT bought the Riverbank Court Hotel from the City of Cambridge). There

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... of people since even though the question pool is the same, the ... you're equipped with the insight/perspectives of friends from previous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my ... with my hands. I knew MIT’s motto, and the sort of activity he meant, but

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... circling that piece of chocolate? Very MIT cool and quirky. The 150 ... Janney, is just one of several whose work is profiled in the “artistic MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  /her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of ... 'd share with you some pictures of the waterpark I work at. I mean, I know ... , Runaway Rapids Waterpark: This is the kiddie section. It's full of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of the semester, I had spent a lot of time and energy on making sure the ... the people around me are okay? The answer here, is, of course, yes. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... 't come easily, and for much of the semester, I was running on adrenaline ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes ... May 4. It was organized by the governing bodies of the fraternities ... Council, or Panhel.) All of the fraternities/sororities were divided into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... before the exam. (Despite the fact that I was always sort of afraid that a ... time of my famously long to-do list) I must have re-inked the fading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my ... woke up to the second blizzard of the year (which conveniently arrived

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the sands of Lake Michigan or small lakes in Wisconsin and Michigan. Living ... longer. Even better, many of them are accessible via the commuter rail

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so ... series. Next, keep your eyes peeled for profiles of the one and only Melis

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is characteristic of less than 5% of the possible paths you could take. But during

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015