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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... peers are clever, enduring, innovative and thoughtful—and sometimes immature, petty and enjoy a good sexual innuendo or two. as i share these

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least ... written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  Santa Fe, New Mexico   What: Working at Surroundings and Architecture 2030. Writing about street art, coyotes, and trees. Reading Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Tupac Shakur, and Carson McCullers. Also, Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  . After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring ... revealed, and yesterday night the 2016 Brass Rat was revealed! We don’t hold

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY PREFROSH! Yes, they are still called prefrosh, and they will be called prefrosh until convocation when President Reif gets on a stage and says that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  likewise very into the Internet as you may have guessed, and as it should be in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... something like this: A New Yorker cartoon and a Jay-Z&Beyoncé picture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... used for conferences and fraternity/sorority semiformals, etc. Our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody ... much time and effort the student has put into the application. So be sure

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Admissions, Stu Schmill, but we need your questions! Send anything and ... -dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then have my self-esteem bolstered when pre-frosh recognize me at CPW and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  Three days into my study abroad program and this is my classroom ... , Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep ... .03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate my first blueberry bagel ever and decided immediately to eat many more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall ... and independent living groups and sorority and fraternity houses, there ... House, iHouse, soon-to-be Maseeh, Random, Burton-Connor... ...and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They ... scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with ... 't worry - you WILL have a host and a place to stay once you get here. We'll work it out! And if your host has tried to contact you but you haven

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up and down the California coast visiting friends and family. I worked last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  Yesterday I carried my camera around all day and took awkward ... other days when I carry my camera around all day and take awkward pictures of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite ... of 101, my stomach is hating me, and I keep getting chills. MIT Medical

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both had pirate hats, lab coats, and light sabers (I know, right?). So, what do you do with these three items? You make this video. And then you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009