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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  Glamorous moments, in the traditional sense, are fleeting at MIT ... the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  fireworks, and devouring a variety of delectable treats. Here at MIT, a few ... Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At ... weights of the top three airplanes at the end of today: University of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  It was my freshman year, not long ago When I arrived at MIT, complete ... digress, you must pardon me - see I came here to talk not of life and dreams But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  course of each week would make an amazing sinusoidal graph." She said, "You ... [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... awesome, so go read it! Secondly: Some of you may have read my blog post ... immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high ... to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... like that of last week, where at 11 AM on Friday, I was working on my 5

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  , coming in every beat at a tempo of 146 bpm or 2.43 beats per second, so i ... , don’t i want to be able to read the next two or three sets of arrows at ... there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... exciting to look at)... I looked at the empty i3 DVD slot on the inside ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  60+ performing arts groups at MIT. There are also a lot of other cool ... matching up all 1,063 of you coming this weekend with current student hosts ... , April 18, 2009 6:00-7:30pm (Doors open at 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium Link

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Therefore, this is a REALLY long entry.

  

  Who: Chris M and Snively What: A picture Where: My room When: Last year at the end of CPW Why: We needed a picture together How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to ... as a comment. There are iPod shuffles at stake here.

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  great lecturer that he was one of two people ON THIS PLANET (or at least ... status of women faculty in science at MIT in the early 90's, which was one ... former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  after the start of those, “Virgin Bartending” (non-alcoholic) begins. At 2 ... of an MIT education - a drink from a firehose). At different locations ... , Spies, and Computer Coding. And 6 hours later, at 8 am, we get a choice of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  critiquing our deceptions, to our own selves and also to others; at the end of ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  when I was 8 years old at my local community park, the majority of my ... friends. At the time, the mechanics of the sport were second in importance ... that I had had when I was 8. At MIT, as a part of the varsity tennis

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving ... no means the views of everyone at MIT or even myself for that matter

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these numbers and rejoiced over others. At one point or another, each of these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011