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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  , much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd fights do, on twitter and facebook. (cue flashback music) Some brief background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my ... and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... . The inside is magnificent, and the history is quite interesting. All of the objects and paintings in the museum are exactly as Ms. Gardner left

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of ... as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!

  

  How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  who are also passionate about advocating for equity and inclusion. Here ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its students. And if you knew how expensive this software was you'd be relieved

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  similarly-priced plans offered by Cingular and T-Mobile, and gives you free ... phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective ... don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  start circling around and around in my head, descending into a state of ... worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and ... falling in love. You're thinking their thoughts and feeling their emotions

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... snippits, flashes, and whispers. Almost like . . . Twitter. Let me say, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  States and all proceeds will be re-invested into the program, the shelter ... travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  states I now call home. However, my interest for blogging and writing ... application, and 69 completed it. A few days ago, Lydia, Kris, Michael, Ceri, Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  , withwendy, and Micarah Tewers!"]DIY fashion youtubers.[/annotation] And the ... year was the year that the pandemic hit, so prom never happened and ... Institute. It’s also an incredibly fancy event that expects people to peel off

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... I am really excited for spring semester’s classes, and without ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew's room and it was the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After I found this song (and immediately realized how positively musically delicious it is), I forgot about my Saturday morning cartoons a few times and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011