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• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  ’s relationship, and who are we to erase a woman’s agency by assuming she must be ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night ... Saturday, November 11th, 2:33PM I’ve been struggling to blog lately. Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  , Euripedes - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library brought to Egypt by ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  vague sense) that my undergraduate education was going to open many doors ... I'll circle back to this idea later. But when I got here, it didn ... dreams and goals of what's going to happen 100 or 1000 steps from now. From

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  questions, and try not to make really dumb[annotation note="A neg is when you ... than it should have been), we and the car did make it back to MIT ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  meetings or the Facebook group to make plans) you are wearing MIT stuff you ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  't think i have the mental capacity to be making decisions like that ... the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see, this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  ." [This entry was brought to you by the following quote: "I look forward to ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know well, to see who might be interested. I found five who would be around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... . Write introduction to 10.28 advanced technical review for Monday 7. Work 4

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005