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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... post from Paris. After I get back, I'll be starting as a software ... for the event under my regalia. But a fateful gchat with Chris '09

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out ... Harvard classes. I’ll call her R for the purposes of this post. R was a ... well. I thanked C for being awesome and promised to return to the class a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel ... . That's ~22.5k new cases, with an average response, from a human, in around a day. You can see the massive spikes at the EA and RA deadlines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  that I know who replied to my request for a profile =) As such, some non-representative things can be seen: two of the students will be working for Lehman Brothers ... today on this blog, I also begin a weeklong celebration of our seniors. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... changes that have changed my life recently: 1.I declared a major in Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... this campaign, please e-mail me so that I can give you further details ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was about as popular as anything else I write amongst a prefrosh audience but ... at MIT. As a prefrosh I had no idea how political MIT was. As a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the ... different from stereotypical contemporary art (i.e. a painting hanging on a ... and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  speak for himself: "You wanna go to Harvard? I wanna go to MIT. You ... ." Just watch the video - it speaks for itself. A big thank you to all the ... MIT 150 Open House, where a bunch of departments and student groups put

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  situation where a piece of information had to be kept hidden from Allan for ... ’ve conquered mainly individually! So here are some reflections from a semester ... , confused and hesitantly, “would you happen to be a twin?” I replied, also

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  kinds of beverages than you can shake a stick at. Eureka! I have reached ... forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... custodian who works for MIT's Department of Facilities. He and a co

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• 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 ... for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The hurricane was pretty far from us, so it only ended up raining for about two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  , pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of companies set up throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  . So, I had a perfectly shaped little dome, next it was time for the mill ... to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  wild game or poach a cow from a nearby farm. (Actually, I think the only ... , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a ... . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  everything for a while. I’ve had to catch up to a LOT of emails and Slack ... for a week and taking two finals on Friday, I somehow needed to pack up ... that I can do more hands-on work in a non-class setting (side note - yes

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... videos. At the time, I was thinking a lot about the foods I eat and their ... nutrition and condensed what I learned into a nine-minute educational video

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  thanks to Ariel '09 for sending me a text message at 2 AM with only that ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the ... started a conversation with Mitra. "Blah blee blah blee blah." I said. "La

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  Hartley (MBA) '12 learns about the need for biogas from a family in Kien ... (Urban Planning) ’12 is blogging from Cambodia, where the D-Lab team ... in Cambodia. Greetings from Kampong Thom! It has been a jam

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  a class (Harmony and Counterpoint I) and added another class (Harmony ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m ... mailing list with an email querying, “Anyone have "cool" sunglasses I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009