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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  "likes". Cornell is super jealous, and they started trash talking a bit ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  was out of the house when my father received a phone call from Stuart ... a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George ... time and had a beautiful garden. But the most exciting thing about being ... Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  /Independent Living Groups. It was great to meet people from all over campus with a ... 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 / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number ... is a hypothetical but unembellished report card. ‚ò∫ *click Let ... : Where did all the glorious IAP time go? This seems to be a popular

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with ... . Also, I live in a castle (see the stone behind the rose) Case in point

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  to get good seats, but we just waltzed right in. A view from my seat ... 's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... refers to the final day that MIT students can "drop" a class (remove it from their registration) with no penalty. At MIT, Drop Date occurs around

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  roll back over me after we attempted to budge it from rest. Luckily, a ... skates, and a team of friendly tourists. My friend Julia '08 shares her IAP snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  for this lab: "You just graduated from MIT and are traveling around Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  tell you a bit about me... I'm a senior in Management and Political ... decided to take a year off to learn more about myself and figure out what my interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from a picture of my grandparent ... patterns. (some of the glass was from a broken beer bottle I picked up off ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] some enlarged photos from the shoot, drying. they’re a little

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  /W) collected some Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A ... I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share with you some thoughts from MIT writing faculty on AI-assisted writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  Instagram in over a year, so my profile is cluttered with content from ... through Boston, a photo from my second-ever concert.) Today, I listened to ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  museum, an almost 25-minute walk from my dorm. I was a mess Tuesday ... published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be published the day of graduation, and maybe one or two process blogs on a few

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  Earlier this semester, I met with Junot Diaz, [annotation note="a ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of ... 't. One that struck me a lot wasn't even something new, but something that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  ago. The giant turtle was from the same era, and the stuffed cat was a ... , a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm ... the building, making it visible from the third-floor portal to the 282

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult, or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008