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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... 's Boston Globe had the news of the passing of another special member of our ... MIT alums speak of him reminds me of many people from my MIT experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• 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 ... ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... 'm writing this post right now is the traditional, unceded territory of the wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a time-honored tradition of East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing ... had sold the company for a box of oranges. Three weeks later I feel that

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... , food, a showcase of student organizations, food, sample lectures, food ... preliminary idea of where you might be happy. (There's a very important event

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... stress out about the consequences of not understanding well enough, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  Here at MIT, and - let's be honest, since this is more of a lifetime ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of ... modern corporate environment of Japan, and sending two hundred and four

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  everybody likes happy, right? This weekend is parents weekend, so instead of just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I've seen a plethora of Project Runway ... vague wishes of becoming fashionistas, there has been little visible ... put on by the Museum of Science. Co-produced by Amanda Parkes from the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I ... - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... actually not so fearsome anymore. It's kind of small, broken, and covered in ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  if I had one of these, my morning would have been different. 9:30 AM ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... of a boy and his trials with energy and entropy. Directed by John

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  , except that he vastly underrates both Galaxy Quest (one of the best movies ever! Alan Rickman!) and Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell always deserves better than two stars). Now, Roger Ebert didn't like "War of the Worlds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  my favorite 30 seconds of the entire show (minimal spoilers present and ... scene, one of the antagonists appears and transforms into a titan. the commander of the protagonists sees this and shouts “keep on the lookout

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022