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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control ... frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to ... and my buddy. We were then searched and told to wait in a nice warm bus ... outnumbered 4 to 1. However, in the end, they couldn't hold the position. We

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is ... maturation. You only need to sit in a poetry class, people-watch at a few ... team in 16.00 (Introduction to Aerospace Engineering) building a blimp

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  inside of the building in an effort to preserve the years of artwork ... Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... did you decide to major in music? Jenn: I decided to double major ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , meeting in the MIT archives. In December, the students presented to me what ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... -dance communication-thingy/self-procreation/photosynthesis ritual to call in the alien

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  thesis proposal about to be turned in. Reese what are you doing that is ... Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... minute. Either the ounce of fluff in its jaws was somehow dulling its

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  masterpiece of breathlessly-paced storytelling, trying to scan in every color-saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest ... .: Drowning in tired while clinging to last shreds of willpower to floss

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  in handwritten script to make the comic feel more journaled ... going into the electron to depict energy going in and another squiggly ... as he talks to Cami, softness in his eyes, a slight smile as he talks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... resident eager to make mac and cheese. In a tale familiar to us all, the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  to for a while in an online AIM chatroom for accepted students, and I ... ’s Taqueria at 8:00 that night, and in the beginning it seemed to be going well ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn, meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in ... forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting ... really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017