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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the ... I know I haven't written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in ... be made into snow fighting artillery. When I met up with Dan in Killian ... snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both had pirate hats, lab coats, and light sabers (I know, right?). So, what

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... graduate from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and, frankly, I ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... Advisors) and other house staff who live in MacGregor year-round"]would not ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3/4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  /ladder constructions, and those in the trees. Niki '09 and I grabbed a bench. She ... night, and squeezing in doctor’s appointments wherever they fit. Helpful ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... that anything was amiss. I think you see where this is going. In fact ... You'd think one hack celebrating Guy Fawkes Night would be enough

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring ... I’m finding myself searching for MIT news. The articles that I found ... chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... vital to this process. If you are interested in participating please

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  Today. I. Joined. Quidditch. The awesomeness is still sinking in ... for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage ... allowed at the event (or I would have taken pictures for you and the blog ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  that case, may I submit a few pieces of artwork (they are in .BMP format ... select the class. In a future post, I'll tell you more about my colleagues ... , I'll talk a little more about this in the future, and in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... start in the 20th century. It started in 1885, when the first MIT yearbook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• 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 ... book. I concentrated, reviewing the sounds and images in my mind so that ... . My favorite author spoke in the same manner that he wrote. I wondered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... constituents, a worthy cause in today’s political climate. I met MIT people I ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving ... After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ... which is in one of the entries (would any MacGregorites care to clarify ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006