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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... research, contemplation, and attempted synthesis of the thoughts generated, I ... ’ refers to the size of something, and is often denoted as the absolute value

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the ... ." (No longer a teenager! What?!) And I'm still at home even though all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... pool and got good and hungry for what I consider one of the most ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  that may never happen. My heart is broken for Boston and the victims of ... to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ...  http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan ... of this sunk cost. I held the square very loosely and walked by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... company that my summer was totally free and I could start in the summer as a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  ; and see, the next time you visit campus, that these small, acts of love ... . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a ... don't. In times of stress and disappointment and anxiety, we forget how to appreciate the good things, like a letter from home, fried eggs and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Summer Glau. Speaking of winning, here are the winners:     So congratulations Elizabeth and Mohammed (respectively) you're the winners of the scavenger hunt! Enjoy the fame and glory that comes with it. P.S. I'm trying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Lifecycle of the trifid Fantastic Beasts and where to find them Guide to ... Evolution of whiskers Treatment and prevention of scurvy through the ages Rise and fall of the Roman Empire Battle weapons through the ages Roman gods

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  , Jupiter and more! The view from the Green Building, the home of MIT's Earth ... front of the fanastic Boston skyline, and it wasn't long before everyone ... she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  , talk, eat, and see the awesomeness of having a roofdeck. And eat! Food of ... come to Meet the Bloggers so that you can meet us, the bloggers, and you ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  both." Well, Jon (and others who were wondering the same thing), there ... (Chemistry), 7.01x (Biology), and eight humanities classes (the humanities ... DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and ... capricious and an abuse of discretion" on behalf of ICE. The lawyers ... and universities have reportedly filed amicus briefs in support of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this thread to make predictions on the exact time and weight. The closest time ... Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... [/annotation] to keep water and stuff flowing up to the top of the plant, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019