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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  work of a visiting artist (often an artist-in-residence), but it also ... to campus. The museum itself is located in the old Media Lab building ... , though, is interdiscplinary in nature and stems from a desire to establish

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in ... Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the MIT Student Center. Richard The (G

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has ... thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast Portland, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound teen is a leader in the school wood shop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... 're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... was warned about them. 1. The weather in Boston is mildly ridiculous

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  her shirt inside out), in life as well - one will experience very bad weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  hard drive today (which has saved my life more than once, invest in one ... challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... ? Sometimes you miss the freshman boy next door barging in and asking you what ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... been given an actual office in CAVS where we host "office hours" (open

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I ... , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in advance You can only select dates up to 60 days in advance During

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon ... planning to spend the rest of the day buried in orgo like an ostrich in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis ... MIT blogs, thanks in part to its posting on digg.com, where it received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  Game. This was my first time in all four years that I'd been at MIT that ... thing, but I think we decided that the more clever competition was in the ... . (Disclaimer: These photos are in no way intended to discourage you from applying

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can ... . So my friend Megan IMs me halfway in between my half-sleep. Megan

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... monotonous. The setting? Indeed. But in the same way that a good book can carry

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006