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• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it ... their spring semester, before receiving a week of relief to recharge. Now ... I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital ... friend Waseem '07 introduced me to this little site he made, which has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  omniwheels on him, and gave him a battery + eeePc. He's just now learning to ... important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now ... that we trained him to tweet whatever he's doing. So, if you'd like, you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up ... some help coming up with a good idea. Here's what I've got so far

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  , L.A., San Fran, St. John -Award Tour, Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest Hello All! As you can see I'm taking the fight to the ... Theater pix, I'm a star! If you've seen the Bryan G. Nance show, feel free

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  you speak the language, let's try to have a (very basic) conversation ... idealism & commitment to the mission of helping the world Favorite things about Boston: public transportation (I don't own or need a car!), the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni ... I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

    ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... it’s been a whole year. Finals are over. First semester is done. Now ... ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize ... the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money, including a $25,000 first place prize. PBS recently put together a short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  ! You ask a fair question, though. After all, Sam does lean uncomfortably close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  four episodes into its trial run, "ZigZag is a periodic video magazine ... ! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Dan Patrick, and anyone else who talks into a camera

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet ... have a crush. 79. I would love to travel the whole world. 80. I become ... 'm a dork, and i love it. 91. I would love to have my own fashion line

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  know, people tend to ask the bloggers a lot if the admissions officers ... some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  for myself. a friend i talked to about my dreams thinks it's neither ... of myself as a very trusting person. i like to think of myself as ... to see if anyone could talk, or even come over and give me a hug. but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020