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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!
offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... organizing a dorm room. Sure, it can just be a bedspread and a poster of your -
Blog / Words of Encouragement
some small distractions to help with many weighty things
prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... good that this world has to offer. this post is that place. here are some -
Blog / Life after MIT
These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?
Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I ... living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.
her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and -
Blog / How to Human
Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…
First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to -
Blog / Classes
Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump
whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling -
Blog / Life after MIT
Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.
than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West
world just because of the head start we have in terms of technology and ... unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and -
Blog / Summer
a year of counting fish the shape of real work
that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that -
Blog / Announcements
To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love
lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students and their families. As organizations, institutions, and individuals have ... public interest, the educational trajectories of our prospective students -
Blog / How to Human
play dough
Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my -
Blog / MIT Life
A Chapter Closes To open another
in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating ... A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A -
Blog / Personal Travel
Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT
After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of -
Blog / CPW
the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman
It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... variety of events at each dorm was completely overwhelming, so I started -
Blog / Events
The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...
in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... dorm. I joined a fraternity, but I live at iHouse, a specialized dorm of ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know -
Blog / Uncategorized
hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses
[/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I -
Blog / MISTI
quiet moments out in the rural English countryside
parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... ’m doing a [annotation note='mit international science and technology -
Blog / Classes
8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics
One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for -
Blog / How to Human
FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring
Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses