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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at ... about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with, so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court ... all the fun. In true MIT grandeur and style, the nearly empty lawn at 8

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting ... device that probes under water, looking for spots with plenty of catchable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  got time to hang out with some of the students at both Carnegie Mellon ... up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... ; Bacon…I was in heaven ☺ . After our delicious lunch at A Slice of Brooklyn

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of ... Tools Class. The Edgerton Center is really at the heart of the "manus ... 'm generally pretty good at it, but I've never been a big fan of literature

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt. I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California. Meeting location: the beautiful home of an MIT alum. Tuesday Miami. With

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  of e." When I was at home, my friend Ben asked me if everybody at MIT ... destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... work at the loss of self-care and health.  However, amidst the chaos of classes and ridiculous amount of stress bestowed among the students here at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman ... this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  -efficient cars, as well as a look at MIT's Friday-after-Thanksgiving tradition of a ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... 's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... out to be the Taste of Louisiana festival at the Jones Plaza. There was ... live at the House of Blues in Boston. We had already seen them live a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  /insomnia at two in the morning, which allowed me to record (still kind of subpar ... completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year at MIT. I was thinking of doing something similar this year - but this ... rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... mentioned did not accept women at the time of the poem's publication) The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  voudrais... uh, [points at item on menu]." This strategy, and the ability of ... , was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the ... DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  though there are still a lot of rough edges and functionality to add. At ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008