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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to ... contributed to the team”s point total: Sunday: - Cake and pie baking contest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the ... after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... leaned in to see beyond the thick column ahead. The clock struck four ... ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  basement in the middle of the night, I moved to the side and acted like I was ... accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... laser pointer to draw graffiti on the tallest building in Cambridge. He ... building in Cambridge, and/or the live Tetris game, and/or the building that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  possible to do so, we would conduct this interview process in the Fall, when ... be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and ... been engaged in this discussion with members of the class of 2011, the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  to do all the classic MIT things before graduating. Accordingly, LSC's movie marathon was one such event I had to attend. Slated for viewing for a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  ']Learned how to use a hair stick[/annotation] Got stuck in a slinky Embarked ... firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order: Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering ... noted MIT professors have helped to select the freshman class while I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  ; Here's the writeup I turned in (click the arrows to scroll through the ... 4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give ... have applied to us Regular Action, please log into MyMIT and confirm your ... have missing components, don’t panic. We have not yet begun to

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact ... that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  with . . . ” in order to evoke the accurate positional relationship of my ... culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... Polaroid donating the portrait to MIT along with a 9000-piece collection of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who ... zone! :) ) I've made my new year's resolution to try and work out more

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY ... and there's also some doors that lead to Stata or the Green Building (buildings people care about) but nothing in 56 really other than that. As a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would love to hear your comments about ZigZag, so please don't be shy, speak up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006