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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  breakfast/brunch (normally it ends up being brunch cause sleep is not for the ... ! Academically, it was the best part of my week. It felt great to be back helping ... finish problem sets before we even learned the material for the course. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  " action figure for $29.95. So is Obama a geek? In the words of Alan ... for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  classes. The best entries will be posted on this blog. There is a possible bonus prize for the best picture that spells M-I-T. I look forward ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a ... 't is because they might think it's outside of the scope of an admissions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  shared by six people. On the opposite wall is a shelving unit for keeping ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if ... 'll see when you walk into Burton-Conner is the front desk. The desk is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little ... truly felt like it came at the right time for me. Everything Everywhere ... watching the movie but the movie was kind of just happening to me. It is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  is about you picking the best college for you. For many of you I know ... questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on ... development and mentorship? What are the graduation and retention rates for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  View for this area is taken from the wrong side of the road, and also ... and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... , because my head is imposing this map that the territory does not follow ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  choice for where they want to live. The key to the whole party though, is ... success. Thankfully the MIT Housing system is designed to give everyone the best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  answered while reaching for my coffee cup near my slippered foot on the ... something together for dinner for the teenagers who live in my basement (mine ... again for a little while at night. You'd think the last place I'd want to

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  working. Or they work and party at the same time. But at least for yours ... called the Clear Conscience Cafe, which is right in front of this ... Bake Sale for Haiti. Best idea EVER! And best vegan cookies and biscotti

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  basis for the enduring and vital importance of the humanities today. It is ... . So here goes: The Burchard Scholars Program is a dinner ... of 30-40 Burchard Scholars over dinner. The best part of the program

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  outside what i thought the realm of possibility was, and for the first time in my life i understood what the narrator of looking for alaska must ... moment very few of them feel like magic to me (the main exception is 6

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  ="Next is known to have one of the best dining halls on campus, and so far the ... Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is ... , let alone a blog post. But one of them is best summed up by this SMBC cartoon: And another, related reason is that public role models for women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  part 2 of using my art powers for chaos. So how do you give someone the ... happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few examples of the poor souls who sacrificed their dignity for my creative

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... too. Why did you decide to do a master's? Xian: The main reason is that ... , the thought of doing this for years and years after I graduate, you know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022