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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  stuck in your head for days on end, returned to conducted the BSO (he was ... So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... college's sister's uncle's first wife's second marriage, but to people I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  , sixth graders, who worked to make the mural together. Apparently it’s an ... have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  makes students and faculty feel unwelcome and work together to create an ... Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the ... . After yoga, I decided to go running for half an hour, which was of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... […][/annotation] To: frens <3   Oh, take this veil from off my eyes My ... ’ve been meaning to share: Domestication Life has been weirdly easy. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... lanyard holds the key to my soon-to-be home, even if it lacks keys to any of the many residence houses. I’m not going to say that I’m going to love

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  your wallet. It's awesome, so you don't have to worry about being bored ... Health Education at MIT ----------- "COVER-YOUR-COUGH" POSTER CONTEST ... ideas go to http://web.mit.edu/medlinks/www/contest.pdf When? Last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever ... ! We planned out an itinerary, booked a hotel, found places to eat, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024