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  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Today was apparently the MIT Undergraduate Association’s Fall Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out large containers of ‘gourmet’ fries outside Kresge…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I’ve been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month. Time goes by pretty fast. Really, really fast. When I came here I was super worried about…

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350, or 21st-Century Journalism. Walking around MIT means running into awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. “Sets” in Set consist of 3 cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the same or all…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to…

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a bajillion cats (SO…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  It’s been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like yesterday. And September is…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Very Doodle Intro Post My first few posts weren't very intro-shaped, so here is a handwritten intro full of…

  

   

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you’re able to decipher my rambling in this…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT’s gorgeous campus. Below are some images I’ve collected over the course of the month. Enjoy! :) Messages in the Sky over…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  After briefly lamenting the longer lunch lines upon the students’ return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the Infinite alongside falling juggling balls, skateboards and…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  I am excited. I am excited because my math professor is sentences away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior.…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Close enough. ** Year 1: Vincent Anioke. No department. Year 2: Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd.com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back. xkcd is “A webcomic…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  There have been plenty of posts about MIT’s career fairs, mostly talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts, pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a zookeeper described as being the…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

      Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri’s post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K.…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  Last weekend was the Tetazoo fall camping trip, and my first time ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire during the fall semester. What…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014