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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO ... the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units. The average MIT student takes four classes per semester, so usually ... , Danny B.D. (we read the MIT blogs when procrastinating too), who captures

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... ..” and the hopefully less familiar D - “Minimally acceptable..” F ... - “Absent. This grade indicates that the student was progressing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... the Class of 1954. Tech Reunions are exactly what they sound like—MIT alumni gathering on campus to see old friends, reminisce about the good old

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  Hey all, just another entry about the EA Telethon madness. I ended up ... - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an ... -like thing. Now, however, the two are used somewhat interchangeably, but most ... digress.) As you're walking from the main buildings over to the east side

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons was released. The ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... the wall. As somebody said during Amazing Race 6, the Berlin Wall is ... graffiti. The incongruity between what the city currently looks like and what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world. There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... the Mystery Hunt Website, you can check out all of the puzzles

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  post throughout the day to add pictures and videos).  Today, Friday, June 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted ... belong to the world.  The commencement address will be given today by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... classes’ Ring Deliveries (2022 and 2023), which I had the opportunity to ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6 ... teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  Hello! The 2.009 final presentations were two weeks ago, and it was AMAZING. If you haven't seen the 2.009 intro video please do, it's beautiful ... &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020