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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a ... ." I "Viewed Menu & Ordered" The rest of it, well, if you care about ... different types of food you can have brought to you when you go to MIT. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, "whoa, air ... a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer. Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they ... care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon ... to put all of this into some sort of algorithm or formula to determine

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... news! Our faculty, an amazing group of folks, asked how they could help ... our Professors about cutting-edge research, cool discoveries, and all of

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT ... of use. Click here or on their logo below to see the demo... I thought ... Entrepreneurship Center Entrepreneurship courses "MIT: The Impact of Innovation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... small books on local dialects of Zambia. Though we didn't have much luck ... another minibus to Manda Hill, a strip mall that lots of ex-pats frequent. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the ... time, it makes me think of Clarissa Explains it All. Please, please

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have ... , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  The first wave of the Next Big Mailing (NBM) has been sent out (several hundred of them late this week; more will be mailed next week, be ... longer remember, the NBM represents the transition of the newly admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  of MIT's best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But ... that things started seriously rocking out. I had a list of my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of ... of it? Anyway, my dormmates and I had a passionate discussion about it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... bit of everything, some Trans-Siberian Orchestra, some Mercury Program

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... was not aware of this. So, it's a little strange when you've been biking ... , and it can kill a human being with just one kick of its mighty legs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... process of re-branding its pre-existing process to sound more green.  The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012