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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  : And finally, just for fun: here is a love song we wrote about Chocoleca ... 'm doing it. As an undergrad I played with a drumming group called Rambax ... 's taught as a co-curricular class (21M.460) you can take at any point during

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the ... sunny as it is, this never happened much. There were a few memorable days ... Florida, during winter training for crew. Stick four crew teams together in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  thanks to Ariel '09 for sending me a text message at 2 AM with only that ... goes like this: "An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  for a variety of reasons, the majority of which are related to Sam's Mom ... , but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  a good fit for you. You will grow from that experience and from other ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... importuned for a word, which was characteristic, as usual. I was urged to speak

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  professors argue for their favorite Jewish delicacy – either Latke or Hamentashen. One is a sweet and versatile triangular dessert, the other is a ... Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be ... click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you ... .mit.edu Other facts: Almost 19,000 students applied for admission to MIT this

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for ... power for some time because it is surrounded by an intricate interweaving ... before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  whose papers I read for class and whose writing and clean, minimalist ... . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal ... one of which will comprise my thesis and the next year and a half of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  applied for work in the field of education. After considering a number of ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... , Long Island, New York, a small town with a tourism and maritime economy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  of the collection is a group of important nineteenth-century paintings ... from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... para prepararme para el examen de certificación de CompTIA A + y clases ... computadora. Me compré una nueva Lenovo 11s Yoga por $800 dólares y era tan

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  'm going to post one or two more things, and maybe write a blog or two for ... to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009