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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of January — the intermediate period between winter break and the spring semester — numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop…

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  On Saturday, it snowed!! On Sunday, the sun was shining. Go figure. And now, onto the non-meteorological information (say it, don’t spray it?). Early this morning, some friends and I…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  life... at least, until next Thursday. Oh, next Thursday. What am I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can’t take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I will applaud it’s shear awesomeness. So this weekend my friends Diana, Yonas, Chris, Tom, Christi, and…

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc. For example, last week, some people…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  right before battle with my cheering squad + diabolical swim cap goggles combo the moment of truth. let’s see if i can swim 100 continuous meters… I CAN!! I PASSED…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  (not by me) Explicit lyrics. Don’t play this in front of your church pastor.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri’s Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time you are particularly special.  Because you are…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  Earlier this week, MIT President Rafael Reif sent the following email to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we face facts, and we turn passionately…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I’ve completed neither goal. Never fear,…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black girl from Chicago studying at MIT. She will be taking Tony Stark’s place as Iron Man in the new Iron…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  ...   ...the Mens Et Manus seal come to life - with the two characters

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  wotes.mit.edu @WOTES2015 facebook.com/womenoftheeastside So many social medias So much time In summary, an awesome model-pretty-maker/organizer, Annie L. ’15, a photographer, Raeez L. ’14, and I set out to accomplish the…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  Organic Chemistry is notoriously hard. But what isn’t hard is having dinner with your organic chemistry professor– which can be sponsored by MIT’s Undergraduate Association! “WAIT FREE FOOD?” That’s right.…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  Happy (belated) Halloween! Although I guess it’s November now but let’s ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half-promised pictures of my friends and I…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013