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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  nudges you to ignore the rigid grammar of academic life and enjoy your ... dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... there's going to be a lot of talk about this over the next few months

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green ... coder who always reads this blog and used to leave me vaguely snarky

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  once class was over. ;) See? You can get to know your TAs this well here ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  threw a piece of paper and they told me "you're going to Austria," and I ... MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness ... professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... checkout books from your public library via said e-book reader. First I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... to look at it that way), going until 6am Friday. Speaker building

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  Spiderman To: [email protected] Date: 01-25-07 1:00 PM Subject: pi, Pi, pie ... Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi ... pizza pies. To top the evening off we'll have a Pi competition; the person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your ... .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... team challenge (school spirit??) seemed to be straight out of "The ... is supposed to be a new kind of reality show, I guess I shouldn't be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering ... noted MIT professors have helped to select the freshman class while I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  ? Whenever I talk to other MIT students, there's so much reminiscing. Always, without fail. It makes sense—pre-pandemic, everything was wonderful! and ... overwrite old memories with fresh ones. I wish I didn't have to revere things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  prefrosh makes me very happy; I love enthusiasm and I want to maintain it. I ... didn’t think I had been super committed to CPW activities, but I actually ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  Wednesday. "I'm going to try to make the best of it." The 5-foot-10, 180-pound ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  training yet. Mostly I got to make electrodes. But it'll be exciting. Maybe I ... inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... writing Matlab code. I was sitting next to my friend Dennis '08, who was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025