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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is ... and all such after that last line, but, um, yeah, let’s…let’s start ... …so there is this weird disparity of time among readers and…you know what, let’s

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  Blogosphere: “Yo, Anastassia, where’ve you been? What’s your freshman ... form!”   Weekend 8 Friday night, I attended SPOOKY SKATE! It’s an ... my way into a concert that MIT’s Electronic Dance Music Society hosted

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school ... my ultimate goal was still to contribute to humanity’s progress. I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  in voice; a volunteer for MIT’s Violence Prevention and Response as a ... Elizabeth Wood on Vladimir Putin’s presidency and premiership; and an arts writer for MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech. I took a gap year in Cairo

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  think it’s the whole package. The highlights of our trip must be the ... with a visit to Sally Lunn’s house where the famous Sally Lunn Bun was ... a poster pasted on the Department of pathology’s notice board about

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ...  in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT’s ... &D would then upload a project summary onto it’s website where only

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... once.” Let’s just say I was a little intimidated going into this class

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  and the sun’s rays streaked through a break in the clouds as if the ... doctors suspected they had a diagnosis - Castleman’s Disease. They had run ... diagnosed with multicentric Castleman’s Disease. The condition was rare and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  hour-long presentation unwrapping the foil from the Hershey”s chocolate ... my mouth as I listened. In my son”s case, I already knew that a ... Minsky”s Society of Mind and Edward O Wilson”s Consilience, three of my

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long ... .) packed on our back. Suddenly, there’s a mission. There’s an ... ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  read more about Prof. Kaiser's new appointment here. __ It’s true ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game ... about this town is that it’s 1.5 hours away from mine. So nevermind

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  grade! Each pset is worth only 2%! Last Thursday’s test (“quiz”) was in ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be ... (why don’t chemists use percent like everyone else? That’s 14.3% of my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it’s a motivation issue here. There’s just actually more work (especially ... . (Also: I’ve had to accept the fact that at MIT, there’s only freshmen and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  official MIT Arts Portal! (coming soon...) F.A.S.T.: To celebrate MIT's 150th ... approximately 150 days. This Festival of Arts, Science, and Technology [F.A.S ... festival, there's even an class you can take to work on one of F.A.S.T.'s

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  evenings before. You see - the walk down West Campus’s dorm row is a (weather ... Claritin-clear blue, the next it’s all about a muggy purple. But the image on ... . That night, the Porter Room (Burton-Conner’s now-defunct dining hall

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  group of friends to take pictures. Here’s a picture of my group: At 6 ... made just about everyone’s outfit look tacky.) It was great to see almost ... of 2006 as a sophomore.) Here’s a picture of some of my Alpha Chi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  features important women’s issues, from a series of articles written by ... , but I plan on subscribing now. Along the same lines, if you visit L'Oreal’s ... Square (it’s within the Conde Nast building, whose entrance might look

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  Given that it’s the day before Campus Preview Weekend and I have two papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s ... passengers to be seen in Mr. Conner”s taxi cab, am I correct? ARTHUR: I guess ... was turn chartreuse. ARTHUR: He”s not proud of it, okay? (sighs) We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  , working in Professor David Wallace’s lab. Alongside a grad student named ... Portugal. Here’s a quick look at some highlights from the project—and what a ... .  This summer, I’m staying at ET, an off-campus fraternity. What’s really

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025