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  East Campus Rush photos

  

  I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... , I'll cover Hall Rush with 5E Rush photos. Most of these are actually ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan ... of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super-secret pre-screening of Joss Whedon's next film, Serenity (trailer here). Of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted ... ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics that continue to organize small modern factions of alternative thought

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... things, you get a community of igloo-building, solar

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... unmatched, playing copious amounts of redactle with Nora, making sure I am not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots.  But first, let

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... was built for a cruising airspeed of about 70 mph, but it still took the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... , seeing everyone and feeling the ENERGY here. But before I get too ahead of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009