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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... . Most of the time on this blog I just talk about me, but I'm just one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... trip. Anastassia and I got onto the topic of how we perceive money as ... same time. I committed to the class and last week was one of the most

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  . Unlike the murals, their contents change with the scale of days instead of ... floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about ... : A - Schedule At the very beginning of the year, we drew up a weekly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... of the money MIT collects goes to charity. I've now invited all of you ... is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively ... the door of her cadillac, I step in back, and we're gone. She turns me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Check out these t

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for ... , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... was one of those days. When the light turned red, a few gentlemen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So ... greater understanding of the issues facing the device. I've actually

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the MIT Energy Initiative?

  The MIT Energy Initiative is a platform for highly focused energy-related activity at MIT. The program includes research, education, campus energy management, and outreach programs that cover all areas of energy supply and
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... cynical about the political activity of people my age by the time I came to ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  Cambridge, California, or China. Four of the greatest years of your life are ... This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking ... my first taste of the working life. (P.S. One of my favorite moments

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have lived here. 2) The proximity. All of my classes are just across Mass. Ave

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... ; however, in the cold of winter, or the near-flash floods of September, some ... of orange juice. That's not all I keep the car around for; having

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  contributions to the field of linguistics in my Intro to Linguistics class (24 ... States. We believe one of the most effective means of combating militarism ... that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024