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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so ... post about it. Many of you may be thinking about mitigating this issue

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically typing up essays fueled by caffeine and a tinge of desperation. Each

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home ... think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these ... have the dangerous dual combination of both being full of awesome project ... 's got a blog of her own, The Fullerene Incident, where she documents her

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• 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 Riley '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I write this (8:15am on April 19), one of the bombers is reportedly dead ... local ABC affiliate, boston.com, and Reddit. In light of these events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in front of a chalkboard, with a drawing of his or her choice. A spectacled

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre genre came on ("Seasons of Love" from Rent). As I belted out the ways they ... first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the ... every inch of carpet. Tools are everywhere: most of them neatly piled and ... , a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early last month I made the terrible mistake of taking one of the 8am-10am

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  things. My failings at life from the last couple of weeks include tripping on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of "helpful handouts." Although I've since forgotten what most of the papers ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  ) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which is in the northeast corner of the nation. Last January's D-Lab Zambia group installed solar panels on the roof of Mwape's primary school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... , Sarah '08 had a lot of fun climbing them. Getting up was one thing, but ... distinction of having its own dark god, Krotus. He's like a mascot, only cooler

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• 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 ... upperclassmen and five employees of Ethicon Endo-surgery, a medical devices company. We learned all about the structure of the company, previous intern

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

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

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

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

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... 's movie selection was very disturbing: D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006