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• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  , and this time, I was not the new frosh, not able to do anything, but the ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  wonderful and fun, but it was getting late, so I decided to head back to my ... time to get back to my room. Stay tuned for a fun day trip idea! ... to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not ... degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day." and I ... Guth." Is it ever appropriate to address A Famous Person by first name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  something, exhaust all your options to get it. I felt I had saved my grades ... me to take a step back and get an overarching view of the material to ... that the class was trying to teach me. What was I supposed to get out of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  weren’t black. It was as weird as saying “you’re human”. But by my first ... hanging out the bus, yelling at us to get our attention. It’s another man ... FUCK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.” But it would never be enough to type it. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  think about how these “traits” map to your life and how you act, and even ... for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  breathe. and get to keenly observe the way a breath translates to subtle ... confused by. My legs didn’t hurt at all. My mom proceeded to explain that ... connected. To get to massaging even remotely near my shoulder, she had to tend

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  afternoon unpacking and finished it off by heading out to a barbecue with my ... It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  that. Send your scores now. Please don’t get stuck paying $30+ for ... to you to deserve that kind of treatment? Have a friend read your ... Congratulations! If you’re reading this post, you should probably be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  getting owned by the college bookstore's price system and then snagged two ... attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times ... and I rolled out of bed and ran 3 miles and ate breakfast and walked to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  Spring with your housemates in a pristine, remote locale untouched by the ... . Provincetown in the dark was a stunning approximation to the iconical New England ... with themselves. I intend no offense to your opponent, Aaron. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  emotional) pain is a lot to get over, but to me, it’s worth it to try to ... SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take ... nothing more, SLP protested greatly when my friend tried to download Genshin

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  country, and your job for that weekend is to faithfully represent it while ... Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  months"]6.009[/annotation] you have to write an [annotation note ... LOLCODE-to-Python interpreter (when I'm motivated to do so/not hosed), and ... that can be traversed by a pointer (the current position in the list

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  fun to see all the random students and faculty pass by and stop to ... missing my train by 3 minutes. ToT ... By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  listening to your body and respecting your boundaries. About brief ... the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve lived

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to work and just sits on your keyboard and stares at you, which I would ... been changed to avoid incrimination by PETA. But uh, yeah. Be safe out ... to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  (ex: Fires caused by lithium ion batteries in landfills)? It goes to ... model to show that this solution was feasible, by doing a power ... possible. You have to be willing to pivot if you learn that your idea is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to ... to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929 ... , 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008