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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I’ve been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency lately is that MIT is a competitive and cutthroat place, and that collaborative behavior is rare. Let me first…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  There are a few questions that I’ve often wondered if people were curious about and just aren’t asking. One of them, I answered in one of my first entries, but…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  during that time)? And much more. After three years of MIT life, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google Published: Monday, May. 22, 2006 By DAVID BROOKS / Nashua Telegraph At right: Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  ‘Miracle Child’ of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT July 17, 2006 BY DEBORAH KOLBEN / The New York Sun If you’ve ever walked through Union Square Park,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Flowers student to attend MIT, thanks to scholarships Student received prestigious Hispanic Heritage Youth Award Thursday, May 25, 2006 by Jennifer Donatelli, Staff Writer [Photo by Lawrence Jackson Jr. –…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  her and ask a few questions about MIT life. If he or she is an undergrad ... 't find secluded green spots where you can sit and enjoy life. You shouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  Mid-summer frivolity, part two… 001. What is Your Name? Ben 002. How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or myspace? um, you are…

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  Mid-summer frivolity, part one… Instructions: bold everything that is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet coke. 03. I’m the youngest child.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being who you are at MIT. ——- When I found out I got into MIT, I was probably…

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  I’ve received this link multiple times today (thanks Kevin and Susan), so I might as well post it before I go see Fanaa… From this week’s Doonesbury FAQ: The previous…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  It’s been so long since I’ve last posted! Sorry! Things have been verrry busy. Here’s a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual MIT tradition, complete with: – a…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Messaien’s glorious, transcendent “Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps” was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a Nazi prison camp, and was premiered…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  “The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth’s surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping.…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  Yeah, I’ve been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry, Caltech’s cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ring around the barrel. Of…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  Yikes. It seems like I may have gotten Wenhao into a bit more trouble than he deserves, so let’s try to reorganize here before anything gets really out of hand.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I’ve noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I was asked several times at…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot of free time…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  money than those who go into banking. The life of a graduate student

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006