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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver ... of friends asking about the Michigan or Missouri Institute of ... of the extent to which people here are open to learning for the sake of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  over [annotation note="i have such vivid memories of the few hours i ... snapshot of my weeby highschool self; take the sheets of Hunter X Hunter ... my bed, or the precarious stack of volumes of Monster on my chest of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL ... campus last night:       I think one of the bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of) by all undergraduates"]girs [/annotation]done following the advice of ... lot of [annotation note="the ones who showed up to class"]familiar faces

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... many different types (and amounts) of essay questions, ranging from the very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved. As luck should have it, "the day" came on July 7th of 2008, and now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where ... events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... though most of the people in the course were upperclassmen). There was no ... from brief. But there are pictures! Week One During the last week of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  saw a huge chalk message (not unlike the hundreds of chalk messages ... strange from time to time) so I strung all the bits of it together for you ... witnessed. I went back to the dorm after an extremely long day (details of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of ... kindle a deep love of TableTop gaming. I burnt through all of the episodes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of ... committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to see some of my friends celebrate the completion of four successful years

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the living at pika happens on the roof instead of under it. Pika's homemade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... , drastically boosting productivity and solving one of the largest computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We ... : Jonathan, May 7th @ Big Cold River." It turns out that one of the ... of these initial conditions as possible, although this part of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side. The best part of the whole thing was taking this picture. Sausalito ... and bike across the Golden Gate bridge. Now granted, full-time residents

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006