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• Blog / Community Projects

  Halloweekend spookifying my frat house

  

  . Fortunately, I'm in college at a time when Halloween mostly falls on the weekend ... year it's on a Sunday. Not only does this mean a whole weekend full of ... festivities without too much worry over the greater terrors of exams and problem

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • October 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  are generally at the top of my priority list. And also, I figured that ... "...only uninterested people." I kind of hate coming up with titles ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  long looking for the light at the end of the tunnel   water you ... sits right in front of me? i am bored i am chewing on a mat, staring at ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous engineering experience is required, and male and female students of all science ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  at MIT, which is a big part of the culture here. But I've been ... 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  briefly thought that the "oxygen" at the end of the word CITGO on that ... similar to flow. I keep the objective at the back of my mind for a few days ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  Feast, and at one point on Saturday morning I managed to fill all of the ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... If you didn't already think that this past weekend at MIT was jam

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly ... the meeting, the ECs had the opportunity to address the audience. At left, two ECs help the attending crowd check in. At right, EC Joanna Tan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  listen and follow along with the rest of the band and the actors at the ... ,[/annotation]but part of me thinks that at least part of it must be my doing. In these ... 's not because of any particular musical expertise of mine, then at least a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates, and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  standing culture that our ancestors may have had at any point of time. We ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  winners ice cream at J.P. Licks, which has some of the best ice cream in ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... world, a little cross-section of life at MIT. I'll be taking you through ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired ... year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006