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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A generous number of problems to be solved and a carefully selected list of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  , making small edits. Next, I’d look for a form I was eager to try, and ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  probably make a good blog entry. Okay, I should probably have published this ... 'm off to a tea party held by the local MIT Club. ... When I came back to England from Easter vacation, I was greeted by

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  -of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  make a fool of myself attempting to sing solo and playing a piece I didn ... musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  commenced immediately after. I had until 2pm to finish reading and to make a ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  to not really knowing how to make friends (I came from a close knit ... having the chance to make new enemies on campus joined a racial ... to a tech school; hated the GIRs; hated being around only STEM people

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... out a ton of work so i can get my actual project closer to completion ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  initial goal of Chop Stir Hack was to make a cookbook, collecting recipes as ... of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient ... said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... 'm officially a junior, halfway done with college, done with thermodynamics, and not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  distilled to a point of simplification that makes a farce out of love and ... getting a glimpse into the humanities here. So here we are, about to embark ... significance and has a darkness about it that seems unfitting to the original

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  small dashes of whimsy make it go from a list of puzzles to magic. The ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine ... participant. Fast forward a decade: our team continues to chug along, picking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  a few minutes to spare (on MIT time). T-6 mins before exam begins. 11 ... cow hanging from the ceiling. Mooooo. 17:15: Make my way to Barker ... .01. Can’t figure out a part of a part of a problem. Noooooo. Time to go to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a ... ways to think about chance as a function. (12 units) 21W.774 [The Art of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  repeat and attempt to make sense of it all by writing a blog post. So here ... all the things I want to get done. And so I make a list. Because making ... the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  loading groceries into your backpack, make sure to put more durable items in ... . Make a grocery list. Before buying more groceries, you should know what ... , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... learning about things than making them, so engineering seemed like a long ... 't going to go pre-med or do a PhD, bioengineering felt more useful as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use/change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... and I try to outline what a feminist approach to data science looks like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020