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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s fault ... the soap-opera-ness of it all. Those moments have a tendency to stick

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... lucky we all are to have a home like Tetazoo. Lauren S. '16 and Micky D

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  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 ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to

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

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... relative, though it seems as though he was a great one to many other people

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History. According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... -accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to ... try to reassign you to a different interviewer (be patient as it may

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were ... Mocha Moves members to choreograph a piece for our virtual set a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and ... into a more in depth article or brochure to hand out to MedLinks as the ... Links program to a wide variety of people - undergraduates, graduate students

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... puzzles I wasn't able to show you. I hope you all had a good time, I know I ... 's a completely new kind of experience! Thanks again, more to come later

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about ... sees her kid talking to a computer). If you're interested in Japan or ... Don't you hate it when your computer freezes and you lose a huge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations ... -male a capella group, on their way from one serenade to another. But some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine ... theme for the current issue and puts out a call for students to submit ... with a sheen of awe and intimidation, which I found to be unproductive

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm. In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... configured a music bot within Minecraft and were able to play some bops

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli ... ! We even got to take a series of prom pictures! We also took

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  to the mix, whenever I take a study break to call my mom and complain ... wore a t-shirt nonetheless, it's only because I have a jacket to wear ... awesome, has a scheduled UROP ice cream trip this Friday, thanks to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to underline that we feel like we still never had a *deciding* moment ... Algebra We both have to take this class because we need a REST (Restricted ... , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019