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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  everything went off smoothly and the other members of my club had fun and ... "purposes" have faded away. And I’m left thinking, what now? I think of the ... and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  from 8.02 (electricity and magnetism), a couple of people from the best 2 ... student volunteer who stamped my white and pink copies of the carbon paper ... . We sat in the corner of the lobby, enjoying our drinks and chatting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  view of Memorial Drive, the Charles River, and Boston. There are also ... obviously thought I was nuts. So I realize that the first paragraph of this ... Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  for a training/conference weekend. It was our first 3-day weekend of the ... -shirts are probably some of the ones I would rate the most comfortable and ... registration times, and planned a decent get-together of some sort. The thought

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math-and ... gesture recognition. The first day of class was more of a survey of UI ... question of how to evaluate and troubleshoot user interfaces. The one that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  , in fact, there was an O'Reilly puzzle of sorts, and it was one of the ... gave you an ISBN (for the Perl Cookbook) and page number, which sent my ... to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  Daniel Mirny and Lenny Martinez    Pictured: half of the auditorium ... ; Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history ... Comm members went up and revealed the design of our 2017 Brass Rat bezel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... Against Humanity, traveled, written stories and had my first midterm (the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word ... is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is ... undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  scattered throughout the crowd, and a few other fun outfits. It was one of ... cheering. Then they went into more details about the history of the ring and ... . There were also a bunch of raffles with the chance to win gold rings, and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  sounds familiar, it was part of the inspiration for FIRST.) Anyway, Friday ... hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really ... , so I really had no idea what day it was. I've also walked the whole

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of ... mansion in the late afternoon, instead of a startup office after hours. and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  and did everything spur-of-the-moment. Thursday night, rather than walk ... have an idea of what my day’s schedule looks like…and if you’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  with a nice Nikon DSLR, and we drove around LA with the intention of ... Cormick art gallery. One of the shots got into the exhibit, and it was featured ... wanted to expand the idea and manufacture a bunch of calendars to sell. Is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  of my toys across the backyard, and playing tic tac toe with my mom on ... reaches of the internet and have subsequently discovered every single ... Microsoft, and then go to a career fair, where 90% of the companies will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world leader of the international Human Genome Project." Anyway, we email and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off ... auxiliary, it's the main verb of the sentence. And therein lies the difference ... the first place. No one invented language, right? Language just kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  one is 10 pages! Just the first one!), and my other misadventures.... ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of ... on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  's influence). However, the character of the building has changed, and it ... in 1916, the first dorm—Senior House—opened, followed by EC in 1924 and ... 1949, and the renovation of the Riverside Apartment Hotel into Burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022