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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with ... asparagine was named after asparagus, and that if our body pH levels dropped below 7.0 and we didn't have buffers, we'd die. As you can tell, both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... snippits, flashes, and whispers. Almost like . . . Twitter. Let me say, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS ... last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript (April 23); AXO Lip Sync, which Snively has blogged about (April 24, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  next year, I got back from work yesterday and spotted a tour group making the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks ... shelter for raped and sexually abused girls. Her original plan was to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  from tradional engineering companies like Ford and Raytheon to service organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of ... Solutions & Technologies US Patent and Trademark Office Google Los

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice bellows YOU MAKE THE CALL. So boys and girls, guess what game we are going

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... designed MIT's Kresge Auditorium and Chapel) and discovered that due to abnormally high winds and bad weather in the northeast, my flight had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with my best trait and instead replied with my worst, saying that it was my meanspirited nature and anger. He thought I was really mean and while it didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , your mission, is to solve the world's great challenges, and that nothing else will suffice, nothing else will make your life meaningful. And, it ... , many great challenges that must be solved, and, surely, it must be our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  determined by investors and venture capitalists, and it is only meant to serve ... isn’t well-defined, and even if, like some unicorn companies, there isn ... “success” i have often been feeling like a unicorn lately, and it’s not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  hours arguing about how great they all were, and finally settled on this wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose ... on if she'll do it again) Ana R. S. '22 of California (and a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4 ... and personality. On one special night, freshmen visit all 10 halls and ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... weirdos and nerds; it’s no longer uncool. I joined anything and everything and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , special because it was short and seasonal things only lasted so long. Life ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather ... healthy, and when unhealthy, it's hard to be helpful, to actually take

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do work at the loss of self-care and health.  However, amidst the chaos of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... read your essays, to learn about your cultural heritage and family background, and discover how you define yourself as a student and a person. I

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and ... . Some were grand and spectacular, others subtle and fun. Here's a rundown ... 's Scar on the Dome July 16, 2005 On the morning that Harry Potter and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011