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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... get disproportionately disappointed when a friend is eating near me and ... food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  you sprightly prefrosh came rushing into MIT for the one and only Campus Preview Weekend, the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team was in lab, packing up ... 's pretty sexy.) What, you might ask, is DBF? DBF is exactly what its name

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature ... , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  and classes tonight: Actual MIT Courses: 5-minute edition! -An average ... Girls and Literary Analysis -Banach-Tarski Paradox MIT Survival -Baking ... -Student Government at MIT Serious Stuff with Silly Names -Serious Chemicals

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  water balloon fight? This weekend was Bad Ideas Weekend.  MIT students ... what it is, but it definitely says Bad Ideas on it and it advertises Bad ... quickly found that being a vegetarian during Bad Ideas Weekend is a bad idea

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  ... unique situation that is mildly difficult to explain. "Hey Connie, what are you doing ... ) through the MIT Alumni Association facilitated program that matches students with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  student center. Leave your stereotypes about MIT hygiene and fashion sense ... had rings in spades. The estimated retail value of all these rings is ... . There are many others like it, but this one is mine: Mine. ALL MINE. Go

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other ... . Why was this wall haunting me?? Here is the reader's digest version of ... pretty excited for the evening when we got there. This is actually him in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... during an average semester, this is more than I”ve ever taken at MIT. On ... my new year's resolution for this year is to manage my lifestyle better

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  . VI-A (Pronounced "six A", not "via") is a program in course 6 (MIT ... 've noticed that my personal yen to travel is particularly strong after a long school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... thinkers alike. It is a conglomerate of undergraduates and graduate students from MIT and Wellesley, as well as faculty from the Center for Advanced

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  great thing about MIT is that while many people come in with strong ... sophomore year. The cool thing about MIT faculty is that more often than not ... welcome ceremony on Thursday night -- the "top 10-ish reasons to come to MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a ... 've taken to opening it up through computers in my lab via athena.dialup.mit ... "Professor Hamel," and although he's an amazing instructor, I think he is one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  with two coats of Parisian. Ruth is opting for a subdued combination of ... match pre-existing design elements--Ruth is painting her walls to ... . Economy Hardware is actually really expensive, but it's within walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  it felt to be a prefrosh -- I was all "oh god, everybody at MIT is ... the gpa to be looked at out of 5.0 since MIT is extremely tough." The ... . MIT is tough, and graduate school admissions personnel are completely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  chance is chance. When winter break hit, we had to forget about MIT to ... up at MIT for grad school. Or you will ... the list is honestly endless ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  likely not closed [annotation note="any is an overstatement but it was ... > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then ... ) "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot because April is the cruelest month

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... year. But, regardless of how vague the role is, or how any person chooses to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023