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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  year” to attend. The Alloy Orchestra, based here in Cambridge, is ... still resonate today. What he was able to accomplish in the 1920’s in terms of set design and special effects is remarkable! Typical to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  lightning sparks involved in the playing of music, though it's totally ... , and Crossroads meet in the proverbial octagon on the second floor of the ... just as weird as Lady Gaga, but much better at math. However, just in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... other eager freshmen, still believed 24 hours in a day was surely enough

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Whew, I’m exhausted even thinking about it! In all seriousness, this IAP I will be... - Working on my UROP in the BioInstrumentation Lab ... publication! - Writing a module for the soon-to-be-launched OpenLabWare website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and ... decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... of the bad question that is, in essence, unanswerable. Now, if you ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my ... In ...Yeah. So, you probably recognize that slogan because it seems ... I will say that I believe politics are relevant, and in my mission to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  , which you can find in better resolution at the website I linked above ... This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... experiencing life faster and faster. (This website has a great visualization of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  .009 course website:  "In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, students work in large teams of approximately 15 to 19 individuals to design ... status)  and many are finished and polished prototypes that, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  they felt about a school on its admissions website (which, incidentally ... Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know ... transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  . For many students, it doesn't really set in that they're an MIT student ... username that you won't be embarrassed sharing with your professors.In some ... "locker") and a website at http://www.mit.edu/~yourusername.And, of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... changed about MIT in the past four years - but many things haven't, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008