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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  politicians as. I asked him to come by my house some time for dinner and meet 30 ... by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that ... process by which projects come to fruition, and how very political those

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for ... slipped my mind that I was supposed to dress up for these kinds of things. I'm very fashion challenged. So, I headed back to my room to get changed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... friends to come to a new place where we have to learn to rely on ourselves. Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... perfectionists: there's room for you to iterate, improve and optimize -- but when ... , it feels exciting. How grateful I am to get to be all these different

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  peppered with due to pledge training the new pledges (which just ended, yay ... right for me. I’m starting to realize more and more that it’s ok to do ... don’t want to treat it like a technical class; I don’t have time for 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students ... forward to, and I'm psyched about next semester, because for the first time I really, really want to take each of the classes I'm signed up for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... course, I turned down a job as head literary critic for the New York Times ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write

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

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  here is more expensive. I can take a day trip to New York City for the ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... did fine more or less…We even flew to Texas for a spring break ... just in time for the freshman spring season to finish. End of freshmen

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  , brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog ... casinos from Vegas to Monte Carlo for millions... but risking his life in ... On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday

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

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  happy about it because, for like the first time, we get to take full ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the ... graduated last year came to visit for a weekend, and we had brunch at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  dormitory phone and asked me if I would like to go to service for Rosh ... supposed to vote on slogans advertising a party thrown by Hillel, but I do ... !" "It's getting hot in here... so immigrate [sic] to Israel with all your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  School in the fall. Summers 9-11: Sports camp, run by my school (oh, to be ... -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those ... (in order): Archaeology (which I signed up for in order to study

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  , and that’s something I’ll leave for you to think about. Let’s draw all ... have one swap for each pair of colors. (Why?) This leads to an ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... especially for freshmen- so if all freshmen were required to take a CI class ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... , baby steps. Sleep-deprived and waiting for code to run, we drew some ... MISTI makes it possible for a broke college student to do that! With that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  to take photos, so besides the above Google images I have nothing to ... background. Once again, go to the exhibit to see for yourself! (It also runs ... [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020