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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... stretching the visual capacities of storytelling, creating narrative networks

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... house can be difficult, and usually the story behind the name of a house ... , was named in honor of a short door in their house, reminiscent of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having ... experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super ... course, I was one of the many folks who didn't get tickets. Instead, I ... Farrelly brothers). There were many great shots of Boston, and I thought the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  " new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came ... obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of ... work of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). Founded in September 2006

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS ... models of policy-making. Considers the significance of the democratic ... Space and Society (M) Focuses on how the spaces of the modern city relate

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  .” – WGBH website Since one of the hosts of the show, Nate Ball, is an MIT ... the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... that this will be a very tough year of MIT admissions. The quality of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the 77th MIT-connected winner of the Nobel Prize. My favorite quote from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... , especially in the early rays of daybreak, when the sun strikes my solar ... attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people ... of MIT life took place during the summertime. I was lucky enough to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... -saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest ... myself about which person in my row of the theatre would start weeping

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... gaining control of the ball) if there are more players on offense than

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  single-file to get on the bus, and on the way out of the classroom I threw ... "]floorpi[/annotation] informed me that day-of tickets to the Boston Ballet are only $20, and they ... a visit, but when I tell you the ballet itself, for lack of a better

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It ... the course of the year in the Infinite Corridor basement, each pumpkin ... to you the enormity, variety, and grace of an ocean of more than 2000

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014