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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office ... MIT community. The purpose of the FSILG Office is to enhance the out-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16 ... restart the making of) a women of the east side calendar, a calendar that dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  experience in all the labs on campus. It's one of the many things that make MIT ... down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for 2.007. Unfortunately, the MIT weather machine was temporarily out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters (such as the authors of Hogwarts textbooks) and have an intense ... . I was dripping with nostalgia by the end of it--Harry Potter was very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the Festival itself. FoL was organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  the activity in my neck of the woods. But first, a pic of my hallmate ... , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... East Campus courtyard has become the site of interesting happenings. For

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments ... , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor. (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light on all of this and so I'll begin with what's on the forefront of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... , intersectionality, and the current state of health services for young people. We

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn't let a visit from the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor pass without geeking out. I love airplanes, but the Osprey

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... was taken in the fall, courtesy of Olay '09, another CME student. For

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  across the country (and the world) will speak on various aspects of the ... description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for its own sake and also for a deeper understanding of the present and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the ... into a handful of letters: [annotation note="Office of the First Year ... part of the FPOP actually ended up being learning about rocket propulsion

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color ... hall and dorm, so both of these stickers had to be on there. The "distressed" sticker I got from one of my friends and given the stress and work

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  cons of the symbol, and improve on it throughout 3 iterations. I chose ... 's too blocky and looks kind of outdated. The rigidity and homogeneity of the logo don't represent the diverse interests and hobbies of the people

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018