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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  at MIT, and I promise, I’ll blog about it soon. I’ve been thinking of ... fifty minutes of Multivariable Calculus. At its core, MIT is a community of people who aren’t merely brilliant and quite apt at undertaking the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  -promised pictures of my friends and I being all dorky and appreciative of Doctor Who ... 's equivalent of Residential Advisors--housemasters, and associate housemasters ... , chocolate covered strawberries, and, of course, mini variety packs of candy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a ... to know about a company. I was seated at a table with three other upperclassmen and five employees of Ethicon Endo-surgery, a medical devices

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  ceiling of Symphony Hall. We sat at the same table as lovebirds Thomas '05 ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... has composed scores for scores of major motion pictures, including the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... of our summer training, we've been coming up with our own puzzles to ... befriended by a group of warrior women with a quiver of arrows. They give Joe

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... Friday of Spring Weekend, April 22. While there are always awesome concerts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... looked up at the dome. The inscriptions at its base. The ten pillars. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  , we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think ... at how self conscious bloggers are of their Spotify Wrapped data. I ... : cynical angst, angry at the world angst, coming of age angst. Feel free to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  might be after the end of the semester']managing everything[/annotation]at ... bed before I had finished at least a good portion of my work, I sat down ... _grid images="58635,58636" /] When you arrive at MIT, the Office of the First

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ! Unexpectedly, they incorporated a lot of music into it and also a meme at the end ... A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  , Subpoenas, and You." I laughed. Of course they'd have to remind MIT students about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of ... quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008