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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you ... , at least, I hope you are - just not the worrying part). Therefore, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  picture with his cell phone last thursday and sent it to me. The text that accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• 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 / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  . TONIGHT. Like Pi? or "Pi"? How about Pie? TONIGHT, 7:30pm at the Hillel Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi. We'll view the movie "Pi", while simultaneously enjoying a dinner of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your college education, here are a few questions: 1. What are the skills you hope to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  My Mets clinched the NL East, and I am crazy psyched. Whoo! So what ... stuff. As its number may imply, it's the first Mechanical Engineering class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 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 / Events

  MIT Graduation Webcast You can watch MIT's Commencement live and online.

  

  , including the Commencement Address by Ben Bernanke PhD '79, Chairman of the ... Webcast here The webcast begins at 8:20 am Eastern Daylight Time with a special "pregame show" hosted by Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 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 Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The MIT PE Lottery for the fourth quarter starts today ... -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I probably won't forget anything about the state of American Civil War medicine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I ... continue the streak of awesomeness through the 8.02 exam tonight. =/ And if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 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 / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  Overall, everything's good so far. The heavy work schedule over IAP ... : Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International Studies minor, taught by Lori Breslow and Bernd Widdig. Lori is the director

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up ... .370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate, but Human males are only the third-largest male primate. "Wait... you're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006