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• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot of cool MIT-related posts, like this one, or this one, or this one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  : Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and ... -food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation ... about one of these events that we were involved with and the experience of going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian ... small canal called “Little Venice” and hidden pictorial inscriptions of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... Cognitive Sciences; specifically, he was interested in the neural basis of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 ... period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... Sunday night (the 13th), in an apparent reaction to the suicide of internet

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several ... Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... little bold with this whole idea, but there's a whole lot of our reputation

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7 ... pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... ) for around the cost of just the bellows. So I spent the rest of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... 's Boston Globe had the news of the passing of another special member of our ... MIT alums speak of him reminds me of many people from my MIT experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  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 highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and

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

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... 'm writing this post right now is the traditional, unceded territory of the wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a time-honored tradition of East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  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 ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing ... had sold the company for a box of oranges. Three weeks later I feel that

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012