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• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won’t reveal the location, but you can easily deduce longitude, latitude, and altitude from the view:     It’s good to be…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major. There are readings with short names, like “Racisms,” and readings with incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  The Bebras Computing Challenge (American homepage, international homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more than…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a comfortable location, preferably on a couch or bean bag. Turn on “The Last Ship” by Sting…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  Hello again, internet~ It has been a while. Well, actually, I’m on the internet everyday, so it hasn’t been that long at all. At most three hours, maybe. But as…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It’s Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies, and oddly-formatted emails.  I’ve been reading a lot of…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done, seen, or experienced before.…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after a day’s worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio taped to my door.   OK?…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  So they say that the best part of MIT is the people. Is this true? Well, maybe. I would say that it depends whether or not you consider cats to…

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT were loaded with burgers day and night and prefrosh roamed free across campus (along with one…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  ………………………………. ………………………………. ………………………………. Have you ever had that feeling where you have so much going through your head at once that you can’t get anything out. It’s like you have…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  “Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don’t have to eat. Over…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM. One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard. My friend…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This week, someone from my…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  In July we posted the blogger application. 88 students began an application, and 69 completed it. A few days ago, Lydia, Kris, Michael, Ceri, Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I’ve been teaching a bit in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. This fall, I’m teaching again, this time a new special topics course called CMS.S62: The Internet…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest entry by Elaine L. ’18 This entry was originally published on Elaine’s blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of last semester’s trials…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015