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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . One morning, we tried to get into the library of the Sorbonne, but were ... (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  ; it was a privilege and a joy to read your applications, and we ... introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  much you need to spend before you sell anything on your truck: between ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... planning to go to the Nate Silver event the same evening -- but that’s okay

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7 ... Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  least 6 hours to get it together I certainly have a lot more respect for ... , and I really hope that I get a chance to teach this again next year ... sophomores get to see what our Brass Rat looks like for the first time. Lots of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  .) On Sunday when I heard there was going to be yet another snow storm ... morning 6 inches of beautiful packing snow graced the MIT campus - ready to ... court we decided to make a giant snowman in front of the great dome

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... the role of 'generally older person'). I'm going to have to "get it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... members to come and speak about their academic departments, and to bring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... , it’s a really good fit. I think the best way to get a sense of what ... chocolate, but once you start getting to really vague concepts like "benefit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye to your friends and pick up the pieces of your cancelled events, moving ... will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  Production Services (AMPS) would love to hear your feedback about ZigZag, about ... feedback! What are your thoughts? Would you subscribe to and watch this ... the cellphone ringtone competition and IAP. It's fun to watch Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... easy to read and get an idea about some of my long-term goals within ... particular this week. I find it good to get a nice balance between fiction

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  team died and I didn't get to participate during my senior year, which ... with any questions you might have about it, and I'll be sure to get back ... the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012