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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... left before Demo Day, frustrated and tired of staring at code, we banged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed ... students. The unveiling of the Brass Rat (at an event called Ring Premiere ... It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  greater proportion of their lives to the arts. This makes sense, because at ... , that number was somewhat higher, at least 5 out of fourteen — nearly ... As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... Some of you may recall Shuli's whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  you drag over all those colored boxes at the top of your screen and look at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We ... seen a new post appear at the bottom of the main page, the date hadn

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one ... that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  's South Asian Cultural Show (a huge event in Kresge Auditorium) at MIT; of ... at home, as I'll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications ... coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

  

  inches. — “major winter storm to deliver 1-2 feet of snow across new ... be around 0.90 inches, corresponding to a snowfall of around 14 inches (assuming the temperature remains in the 20s), with an additional 5 inches of

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  completely done with their year at MIT, there are still hundreds of students ... the student feeling comfortable about a lot of different things at the ... throw at them. This is why finals at MIT are a whole new kind of special

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the questions they ask for their assignments. So here's a short collage of some of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  him haha jk). No, it’s because as a member of RingComm he had to be at ... photo position setup, and 2) NONE of us are looking at the camera (Karen ... ’s Delivery. Here’s a photo of our committee on April 18, 2017 at the 2019’s

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the ... cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... -person filming techniques and delved into an amazing array of projects aimed at ... of cinemaphiles at the Media Lab, all–too capable of producing

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008