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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the entire Boston area, I sort of feel guilty having fun if I've got a whole bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran. They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  digress, you must pardon me - see I came here to talk not of life and dreams But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the ... MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course ... administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing ... having lots of meetings recently and we already have a schedule and stuff

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this ... ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... multiply. With due time, I managed to bully myself into writing, and one of the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... Seth Mnookin, a science writer and co-director of MIT's Science Writing ... this time of year, it could be mistaken for a painting of the snow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  everyone from the back of their heads, but the girl at the right is Ruth '08, a resident of 4th East and a Senator from East Campus, and I think the ... Bryan '07 (Chair of the Committee on Housing and Orientation). Here we

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty ... monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunes of the All-Night Tool Just a little night music from me.

  

  a few of the top hits on my playlist right now. Some of these are old ... pretty good for helping me stay up. :) Enjoy! REM: King of Birds Stars

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the basement, there were huge stacks of paper, though apparently there were a lot

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... whispers of "I miss you" as electricity carried our voices hundreds of miles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was a bummer week, and my days were punctuated with a lot of downs. But ... A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend. Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is ... been emerging a lot - this is my LAST fall first day of classes - this is my LAST fall first day of lecture - this is my LAST time pretending to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on ... pset, but you shouldn't think that a lack of questions implies it won

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011