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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the ... Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... my room, the smell of rush burgers and cigarettes that I never smoked

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14 ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party ... SYCAMORE GROWWWWW????" Q of P - I was the first one there, as anyone who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... !!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week ... incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that ... of being taught by one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  the book that you need, then you can get it off of Amazon.com. Worst ... of classes have "Course Notes," which are sold at the Copy Tech. They ... , are sure of your classes, and hear which books the professor wants you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  ourselves as we walked up the catwalk in front of our potential dates. "Bryan ... . Mitra enjoys the economic thrill of auctions. Our emcee for the night ... Formal This year it was at the State Room which is on the 33rd floor of an

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... " (Stanford South?) preview weekend on the most recent episode of Veronica Mars. For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... 's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too ... preparation for the meeting, we were all assigned the same three applications to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What student disabilities services are available?

  MIT is committed to the principle of equal opportunity for students ... with disabilities receive equal access to all of the Institute's programs ... visit the DAS contact page for more information.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to ... the plot of the original trilogy before seeing MTG's fall production of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take ... once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... with this little ditty, to the tune of Ed Helms's "Tyson's Tiger Song

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of ... : Yummy French desserts: Sandy the turtle: Another shot of the beach

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... in the mail. I'm not sure of the exact number of admits, but it is very

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made ... scavenge the town dump (the social center of some New Hampshire towns) for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the ... very little time. By the end of every lecture, you probably have four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron ... . Your beard growth very well could be accidental; the result of a few long

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005