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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three.♪ (Thank you MIT faculty that plow the snow for us!) ♫Uhhhh walkway ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to ... as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a VERY long three months. But, last night it was over, and it was time for

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Today's tie: See for yourself below! An eventful day! Today, my ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... . Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  ready for the geek-in-chief. President-elect Barack Obama used to collect ... , there's enough there for geeks to celebrate. Psychology professor Larry ... standard for geeks to possibly live up to." All the nerds at home can at

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... the set as some sort of bucket list for places to visit. I bought the ... NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  't been audited for accuracy. Here's the catch: with some initial tests to ... been a part of the Center for Civic Media...just having the freedom to ... Center for Civic Media definitely orients me to [say], "This is not just a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  internships. I wasn’t looking for a standard internship, but I had nothing to ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the mountaintop were those who would travel to Brazil to study insects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  got moved to Friday? So essentially all I had to do was study for my ... With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  been trying very hard to clean up the place for the past few weeks. It ... coming to Radio Society. I started out using my skills for good. Hans ... captcha. Soon, I started to gain a reputation for making various cursed

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  necessary part of growth. For me, coming to terms with the fact that most of ... think for a while I tried to fight the feeling of ordinariness and ... The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  at MIT for 9 years.  Over that time, I've periodically opened up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... a long, philosophcal answer are not ideal for this format

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... or not" contest There's also free pie for everyone! And, you can pick ... its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to ... , there would have been no need for the winter jackets, or any jacket whatsoever. According to the National Weather Service, we had nearly record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  for the student rush tickets -- thanks, guys! I have weakly ... for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in ... pretty late, but this weekend I hope to see Avenue Q with a certain

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  November through late February (for this problem we'll say November 1 through ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little ... to me, and to trust my own assessment for what matters, even if it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  —rushing for 170 yards per game, attracting national attention—I just have to go ... he was a junior. As soon as I saw him, I went to the web for a look at ... ’t a night for his usual spectacular performance. But he was fun to watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009