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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics ... telescope mission (I recognize him from past colloquia), and a fourth guy I ... every day does the chance come along to post a shoutout from a blacked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... I am what one might call a "professional blogger", or what a liberal ... unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  , distinctive, and easily recognized from a considerable distance. Originally ... graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide. But neither of these were American ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  high school might have been anywhere from easy sailing to a fairly time ... time. I watched a few videos from MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, which hosts ... weren’t far from grasp. Firstly, MIT might be a restless marathon, but it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  be a good guess. I first heard about the hack from a few friends talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my ... a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever

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

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  from a list of 12 diverse pieces for our project on improvisation. I ... ," depending on whether a person is eating (essen) or an animal is eating (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  fill this venue from the melted-down materials within a year. In stark ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  indicator of whether or not you were a resident of Senior House - from what I ... snow? Here's one, taken this morning from a 4th floor balcony before I ... Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  of a sudden all of my belongings feel heavy. Picking them up from their ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  walking back from the kitchen, holding a garbage bag, when a wide-eyed Eric ... :30, and the dance itself went from 8 to midnight. I took a ballroom dance PE ... 10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  : TRANSITION FROM INITIAL Let me point out that my naming convention here is a ...     My friend Robert V. '20 is a Course 6-3 (Computer ... has TA'd an interesting IAP class called 6.148, a web development class

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  from a transcript or very basic info -- and the interviewer is human too ... I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  we have received a number of questions from prospective students who ... first grades since last February, or a recommendation letter from a ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the program, a seminario is "a larger ensemble community." "Children from music ... was a little kid wearing a cast partnered up with a tall young man from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , photograph dome from afar to share on blog. YAY! They put a BUMP on the dome ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  The Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) sponsored a dinner and internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I've pasted some excerpts from the UEA email in italics.) The complimentary

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  example, and the murals that exist range from anywhere between a month and five decades old. however, MIT has recently been shifting away from ... 're maintaining a connection to the pre-renovation floor even though art from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  ) from pika. A nearby group from Olin substituted a pirate-themed kiddie ... and hummus rescued me from suppering on a hot dog three steps removed ... body from the kneecaps down was jellified in a wet, cold numbness. Ships

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this ... later, I graduated in a building right across the street from Westminster ... said, I admit that his "brash and pungent style" (a perfect phrase from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  B, Example C from a quick Google search). However, with enough ... cost of a meal plan fully covered regardless of dorm type. Thoughts from ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025