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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... about the perspective of an 86 year old veteran and videogamer on life in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your ... to: 2) keep it civil - in tone, in subject matter, etc. we're all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  waiting in line for some iced tea this morning the two architecture students ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  work of a visiting artist (often an artist-in-residence), but it also ... to campus. The museum itself is located in the old Media Lab building ... , though, is interdiscplinary in nature and stems from a desire to establish

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in ... Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the MIT Student Center. Richard The (G

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has ... thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast Portland, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound teen is a leader in the school wood shop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... 're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality, sleeplessness, and profound superiority over Harvard in every regard*. Other

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo moon-landing program in the 1960s, Hockfield said. Read more (and see the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT that I would, in fact, be attending their school in the fall, I thought I ... was warned about them. 1. The weather in Boston is mildly ridiculous

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• 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…

  

  her shirt inside out), in life as well - one will experience very bad weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  hard drive today (which has saved my life more than once, invest in one ... challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... ? Sometimes you miss the freshman boy next door barging in and asking you what ... , and the fraternity I was living in over the summer had free cereal 24

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... been given an actual office in CAVS where we host "office hours" (open

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008