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• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings go, these things are pretty big hunks of metal. Second of all, they are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science experiments: 2nd Grade: Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over? 6th Grade

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status, and I'm just sending pictures of my office. Matt and Ben are doing a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... so happens that christmas coincides with the end of the fall semester, which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  pictures and videos from one of the events. [annotation note="ive been mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... I actually spend days of my senior year passing out the latest issue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... be rotating counterclockwise. By modifying the number of petals, direction, timing, plane of movement, geometry, and other parameters

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to ... classroom. No doubt you've heard about it, as it is getting a lot of press

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2010! By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube".

  

  By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube". Let me hear from you! Are you excited? Are we your number one choice? Do you have reservations? Are you still in shock? Drop the Nance

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  and a half classes that fell under MIT's broad category of [annotation note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences classes, including one from each of those categories

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  extensive collection of movies. I've decided to replace Veronica Mars with ... the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and ... be no Ruth or Sam around all the time to make Conner 2 the bastion of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate them into our celebrations. Enjoy these photos! [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023