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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this semester, which explains my lack of blogging (not that that's unusual or ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  courses on site at Jeju National University. Over the month of January, I ... is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... could process. While one always needs a certain level of conscious

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... / Fishbone / Five Fingers of Funk 1997: Battle of the Bands (no headliner) 1996 ... Trick / 'til tuesday 1983: The Tubes 1982: The Ramones 1980: Battle of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to ... the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too. That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  A couple of days ago, Snively wrote, "I have a theory that bloggers ... a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... : Pimp My Sukkah. Hello everyone! FYSH (first year students of Hillel) is ... decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  universes waiting to be painted, and I just wanted to flood them out of my ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... In this blog post, I’ll share the saga of the Class of 2022’s Ring ... attend because of my gap year. But first, some history: MIT began its

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

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  " align="alignnone" width="1000"] A most stunning sunset of Dorm Row my ... you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin ... an off-campus apartment and settling into a new pace of life, an expat

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage ... . During this short bike ride, a toooon of people responded. Like, 16 people

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  other great universities, and I’m very proud to be a part of that legacy. ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011