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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  are not above a little glee at the magic of science. 18.01, Calculus ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... included discussions on everything from admissions to the point at which

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I smile a little at the family-unit-energy of everyone running around ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  here at MIT, as well as some of the incredible feats of engineering ... of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "What if I have a beard tan line?". At the end of the week though, the ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... that, I think, is the difference: there are so few tests at MIT that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  you decide to come here next year: most of the events at MIT have free ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  if I had one of these, my morning would have been different. 9:30 AM ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... of a boy and his trials with energy and entropy. Directed by John

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  to snap these photos, I was placed right at the back of the ballroom ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  some of the world's more pressing issues (at least with regard to America ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  of the Amazon women. Hmm... amazon.com maybe? MAP: START HERE (at the ... . Let me know what you think of the puzzle. Too hard, too easy, too short, too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  , used to get 'em Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em.” such ... some friends over iap (aka january at mit). one of the more awkward ... desires are currently a part of me and that, for now at least, that means

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  profanities at him until he’s in the bus and out of sight. I turn around, and people are staring at me. Their expressions are variations of a theme ... calm and I’m thinking of their kid in the back seat. And I’m staring at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn' ... gave a decade-by-decade look at the history of the Institvte, and helped ... historian of my undergraduate dormitory East Campus, here at the Massachusetts

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  meshed at the end of the year and we’d spend every friday hanging out in ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  if I keep at it for a few eons, I'll start getting the hang of it. In ... spent the first week or so of IAP at home wrapping up some driving ... (notable mentions include a production of Titus Andronicus at the Globe(if you have

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  'd say we're managing to keep our heads above the water...at best. Living ... 've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  ’m improving as a person both in and out of the classroom. At the same time, I ... March was the busiest month at MIT so far. It truly felt like it was ... belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018