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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... of our summer training, we've been coming up with our own puzzles to ... befriended by a group of warrior women with a quiver of arrows. They give Joe

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... . Another nice shot of the liquid nitrogen ice cream (aka "CryoFAC"). Cryo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... Friday of Spring Weekend, April 22. While there are always awesome concerts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the past three weeks sapping so much time. The barrage of classes, problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the vanquishing of our most sinister adversaries exams, we received a glorious dump

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  dinner, and then the ensuing food comas, and then the weeklong marathon of leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce.  Sadly, like a lot of ... importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023