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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  holiday cheer, goodwill toward men, and all that; I'm referring to rooms filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... sets and equations, I sometimes forget that I am actually on an academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped. I ran into Killian Court and flipped the bird. I gave everyone the ... about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  -component jewelry-making, seesaw- and small earth-mover-building, truffle-creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side ... learn their way around campus, and upperclassmen will show off every

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... Whole Foods float. Much, much later, we got a closer look and realized it ... start before 11AM. Some thoughtful HR people had procured stickers and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  consists of problem sets, papers, alarm clocks, and in my case, rowing ... , Holland, Uganda, Boston and Mexico City, this is the first I feel I have ... play place of skiers, campers, kayakers, rafters and those on the hunt

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what that even means and...well, why are you saying it so much, anyway? (Maybe ... and re-learning things at the same time, but hey, no p-sets due, right

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and ... weekend. Today incidentally also happened to be my brother's birthday AND ... whatva I do what I want" and flew home to surprise him. I have tons o

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  , I’m taking Genetics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to Acting, and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random ... .668: People and Organizations (9 units) (mentioned earlier by Jenny!) The 9

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  " and the second one "Experiment."" -an embarrassed '12 "Can anyone help ... ALLUDED WORKS TAKE 4.601 HERE AND BE AWESOME (AND CULTURALLY LITERATE ... one class, or make that three. I just took a test and I'm not sure

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... alumnae, prefrosh, and current students all across the country, who better ... here ****************** CLICK TO REGISTER!!! ****************** and be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  - primarily shadowing doctors, helping the clinic fundraise, and learning more ... .org and tailored to be culturally appropriate to the Chinatown population ... enlarge) Chinese and English back sides (to be translated into Vietnamese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they ... ? Also, all the captions to all the pictures of it showing up online and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the ... tonight cutting hair at Random. I was her third customer this evening, and ... people around the dorm, and by Christmas was cutting hair often enough that

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  that I might pop back in every now and then if the occasion's right ... Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen high-profile NGOs. In short, the ... to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  now and again. In Boston, however, since there are so many people and so ... , city-wide super soaker wars, and all sorts of other fun, spontaneous ... -themed TV specials and music videos have taught us anything, it’s that come

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs ... for launching such bands as Nirvana and The Shins. * Rain Man, Die Hard, My Neighbor Totoro, and Beetlejuice. * Haley Joel Osment. * Ronald

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the alley, they appeared to be drilling holes into the pavement and covering ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  hosed and have kinda been brushing people off. It's not because I hate you ... kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it. So, like any spontaneous college student, I walked over to Boston and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  As you've likely read, Snively, Paul, and Bryan will be hosting a ... past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year ... that basically allows you to upload photos and thoughts to the web in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008