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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  harmful effects of inflation. I can add a little more about each. Laura is ... to MIT in two years, I wish you all the best for the future ... winner receives $100,000 and two years of support from Thiel's network in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  appeared in The New Yorker in 1978. You can read the 650-word story (which I ... both exciting and sad -- I am head-over-heels in love with all 3 of the ... Here's what I'm taking this term: 21L.471: Major English Novels

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video ... Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  in the hacking of this hack     but I can't say the ... On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM. One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  it for free food and subsequently consuming it. I can only hope for ... of free food? I'm excited. So much so that I'm running two East Campus events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until tomorrow. And you don't get to read it unless you vote. Now, I did my part by voting against Rick Santorum on a beautiful sunny Wednesday last week in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  Patriot’s Day on Monday (can anyone say “Boston Marathon” ... and Sam ran it together in 2006). We also got Tuesday off because MIT is ... so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  then headed out to Sonic (a drive-in burger restaurant) for lunch, where ... 're in Kansas for the Design/Build/Fly competition, and after unpacking our ... demographic makeup of the competition. "I forgot how much of a sausagefest DBF

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  turkeys: Kelly (09) demonstrates step one in purple: Louis (07) can do it ... , the steps involved in making a hand turkey are as follows: 1.) Stock up ... our names on our turkeys and they sat proudly on our doors, perched in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... my mind. I wrote them down on a board in my room. They stuck. Shifting ... college experience not defined in bulk by beer pongs and drunk friends, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I will be here (in Hilo, HI) for 2 months (June

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... room (with a TV!! except I don't get to watch TV that often...) - In ... representation of the extent to which our room can look like utter chaos. I cleaned

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  armies and a slave named Caroline Terry. In case you're interested: As I ... 't think I've seen a snake that big, except maybe in the zoo. Or in the first ... back in the day, when a little green tree snake slithered over my foot. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  helped to create giant underground lakes in ancient Egypt . . . at least I ... There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  in on what's been happening. I'm not really at liberty to explain what ... interests. GoCrossCampus can be a very simple game. Each day, you will receive ... owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  whenever i cry in front of her she kinda just looks at me like ...you good ... . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I’m at home sometimes I’ll sit in the sun and she will nap in my lap. Here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  the world. I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re ... We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... truthful. And we must hold ourselves to that standard. I want to reassure

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can ... , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  graduated and moved away, much to my distress), and I can testify that laws of ... I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED and you should be too ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... as they compete in PyeongChang! Luckily, because I was close (ish) to ... and mentally. This IAP, I took part in the MISTI Global Teaching Labs

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018