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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30 other people, and really getting into the groove - but mostly the banging ... the credit of a normal MIT class, but it's more than twice the fun - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student ... -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I am a freshman (soon to be sophomore!) very much engaged in both the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... considerations included aesthetic sensibility and whether or not the photographer had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road, with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... to MIT you will have the opportunity to go to Senior Ball, which was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science editor.) The article opens with: “Since the 1970s, women have surged into ... -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in my 2.001 lecture. You see the double-angle formulas, don’t you? Yuck ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  distinction, he seemed genuinely surprised that I had even heard the news and ... , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Takeshi Kaga, the flamboyant chairman from Japan's Iron Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of Les Miserables. If you own the 10th Anniversary Concert DVD, you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  Laura had an interesting entry a little while ago about the Mario ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real-world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  The NACAC conference happens each fall. About 4200 admissions people ... for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  aside until I saw the days I had gone without blogging continue to ... the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of the fall semester. In case you aren't from MIT, just as general

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  deadline of 4 weeks and an MIT undergrad in the midst of classes, clubs ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  was an excerpt from chemist Primo Levi’s memoir, The Periodic Table. I ... this Saturday. The first break of the school year passed this weekend ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the acronym is probably more recognizable than the full name. It’s therefore

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... . Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply ... prefrosh, because I don't think it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011