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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  highlighted to make the blog more interesting (well, maybe the LEGO airplanes ... , too, is very committed to its students. They seemed to make the students ... I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  ? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well ... I humbly consider to be the most superior Brass Rat ever. (Hee.) My ... opportunity to dine -- they don't serve hamburgers and fries there, you know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the graduation speaker for Commencement 2006. Bernanke has recently been nominated by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  students from the start of the research project, and he is continuing to make ... the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT ... , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer ... everything to shut down for two days, though my roommate and I determinedly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  needed most was to shut off the computer and to make time for the “sacred ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  staffed by BC residents who make sure anyone who doesn't actually live here ... -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer ... -of-context quotes their friends make. In short, there are lots of ways to decorate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to ... of people seemed to be making the same completely random, arbitrary ... next week, and teachers aren't allowed to schedule any exams or major

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved ... and want to help guide them through their first year. We can provide a student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... off by a final design project that brings them to life. He’s also ... he’s on track to acing the class. His love of “making stuff” follows

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT ... been posted already, and I'm not sure what you guys want to hear about. So tell me. What topics would you like to see entries about? If you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Institute making sure we at least take two hours off a week to go soft brain ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... ="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain ... caused by a fire sprinkler, something that’s supposed to protect against ... purpose, really, of being communities, and this idea makes sense to me now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . My setup is so much better now. When I need to make a PowerPoint for my ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  the decisions people have to make and weigh when joining a sorority ... that I was chosen by lottery to live in the house and my options were to ... "What if..?" when it came to joining the other sorority. This past spring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  energy drinks so that by the ridiculously late hour I was supposed to show ... If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  and I needed to reevaluate our relationship. So as I walked by, I very ... favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  people passing by. Suite culture is a significant contributor to how social ... an identity to claim, but also the agency to grow and make the culture ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020