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• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a ... company. We learned all about the structure of the company, previous intern ... night, I had the pleasure of attending Zeta Beta Tau’s semi-annual dessert

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... or the whistling of the city. My destination, Brookline Arts Center ... was hours of pushing wet mud forward; scraping redness off the wheel

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  find MIT's Great Dome shrouded in white wrappings and the hubbub of ... . MIT Hackers did a little to welcome the Dome back to the world of sight ... Saturday, they transformed the ceiling of Lobby 7 into a massive black hole

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... Admissions Stu Schmill took it with Woodie back in the 80s; one of his classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  residents could be shut out of the place they live and, in my mother's case ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values yesterday afternoon: To the members of the MIT community, First, an update

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  MIT and Boston are in the middle of the actual Snowpocalypse, so what better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as ... are generally at the top of my priority list. And also, I figured that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two ... , and I'm pretty proud of that. Anyway, at the end of the game, I dove ... , but at the price of torpedoing myself neck-first into the turf. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up ... and dirty in some jets and really get to know the enlisted side of the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... identifying some of the locations as a sort of summer project. Alan: And, since ... first night. We were in the east part of campus, so we started with the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides ... grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I ... obvious set pieces, including the giant kiss-shaped mountain of Hershey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006