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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  STEM, STRAIGHT, NO MUTE) at speeds rivalling those of Hurricane Irene ... In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at ... at this time of worry, when we have been struck by Tsunamis, Katrina ... should be at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. For more on what Saad

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  since freshman year of high school, easily looking at my 6.006 psets and ... clue. Really all I know is that at the end of the day, I want to be ... of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  service, Artisan News.  Kiara put together this nice montage of our time at ... before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of ... every Thursday and Friday this summer, I hop on a bus to work at WGBH, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  of their program. A company representative at a career fair came to MIT ... After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• 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