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• 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 / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  profanities at him until he’s in the bus and out of sight. I turn around, and people are staring at me. Their expressions are variations of a theme ... calm and I’m thinking of their kid in the back seat. And I’m staring at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  'd say we're managing to keep our heads above the water...at best. Living ... 've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... right now. It feels as if my schedule this semester doesn’t have a lot of ... happens between 11 AM and 3 PM. I guess part of it is just because my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  Natalya Brikner and the judging panel   At the beginning of this year ... I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just ... very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  of being back and Matt McGann and Chris Peterson have already called me ... (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore?? Crap.) here to tell you about life at this "quirky and special" place. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  nature of these photographs.) Since eating seafood at an overpriced ... the way down, we wanted to stop at the restaurant (Top of the Needle ... to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pointless, but not so hard that most of the class couldn't do it. 'Twas I who ... walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and ... her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  150. At the same time, I bid the Class of 2011 goodbye with the promise ... to even realize…ways that will be a part of them when their time at MIT ... I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... thick, they also have another type of sign for high voltages: If you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another fun problem Skip if you don't want to do more physics.

  

  If you liked last night's dynamics problem, here's a new and exciting one for you!

  • by Snively '11
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual ... controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 ... Tok describing the sluttiness of sweaters for my friend Julian '23 Cami: This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  use, at a fraction of the cost of purchased charcoal. Good work ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it ... ? Charcoal is the product of incomplete combustion of organic matter. This

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  , with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective aspects of communication. The final report, some 33+ pages worth, is due ... all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006