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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I’m back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT, because we’re edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college’s majors are called ‘courses’. We have a…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Out! before and after pics of my MacGregor room, featuring a view of New House

  

  empty, 5/25/19 full, 11/3/18this is a cropped panorama, forgive my shaky hands + the warping at the top

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we’ve described in the first two parts, we have a…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  almost a year ago (wow how has it been that long), i made an extensive, fangirly post about how much i love spotify and its playlist making features.  i am…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection: The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for finals and my leaving…) and…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  to set the mood: episodes – mishegas here are some photos I took on a warm sunny day warm sunny days were rare this semester rainy, cold days made it…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church. The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult star and cultural icon John Waters. I…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  It’s finals week. However, there’s a lot going on besides final exams. This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on how I’ve spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  i really loved joon’s everyday post, so here is my own unnecessarily detailed day! watch as i stumble my way through like sixteen hours without ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks that are going to…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020,…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking about reading The New Yorker so…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  Moments ago, at 6PM Eastern Time, we released, via email, our decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you did not receive…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

    Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it, so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday evening, or early Sunday morning (it’s always hard…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo. 33 Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It’s incredibly easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept, money earned and spent (mostly spent).…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to find something she’d recognize.   But the…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019