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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  get out of it on the first floor.) 10. The basement (and MPR) Even ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... whole week, and I had to climb up 10 flights of stairs every day

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... , the first assignment was also the most daunting. The prompt was to write

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  feeling it for the first time. The joy of (relative) adulthood, of free time ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  Ok, so long story short (I'll blog the whole thing later), I use firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... finished blogs too for that matter). So I started the arduous task of trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  experience. It’s one of the only first come, first served things, and classes ... . At the first meeting... uh, to be honest, the beginning of Taekwondo is ... "]instructor[/annotation] to eventually grasp the first part of the form: low blocks and punches

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom ... picture of my first banana plant, but now I have three or four, in my ... by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... Snively was the first one I remembered because his name is funny. This past ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  next week. It's the first week of classes, so this is terrible timing, as a lot of classes require you to be at the first session and will kick ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on!" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  the first kind of “special surprise” I was hoping for. For context ... During the first MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) rehearsal this semester, Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all ... darkening, and the whole outside park was covered with this thin layer of snow ... .[/annotation] I remember the first time the world made sense to me was during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  last class to my first extracurricular activity of the day, rushed back ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW ... writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... changed my baby, grabbed scraps of sleep when possible, and eaten the nice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of ... , courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper ... identity lends itself to a political identity: the idea of a blank passport

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests, including: Migrated the whole site to a Movable Type

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past ... were also given some color projections of the same diagrams, in case you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  I solemnly swear that I am about to tell the truth, the whole truth ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I've also always been a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  page and the font is some hideous shade of purple or something, don't be ... take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... entry for you other clueless '09ers. Right. So, just a note- the rest of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  7 AM. Hiking the first part of the Highline Trail in the morning was ... of felt like a freemium model. So we did, and we finally got the whole ... the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020