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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one-line summary of the film: "It was a geeky, MIT-type of film." In many ways, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the ... we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... Majorana fermions. That's exciting, since the colloquium a couple of weeks

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things, but a few key ones. 1) Classes are harder 2) Classes are in your major ... taking a lot of classes over a wide variety of disciplines. These are known

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I learned a lot about MIT history and trivia.) I've said it before and I ... and took a 2-hour nap, and when I woke up I realized I had no homework

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring. Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... -- Computer-Aided Manufacturing, or making the mill run automatically. A year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim ... Revere Park is fun to explore as well; there's a great waterfront area

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... down enough to send a coherent response and spent the next twenty ... out to be a lot more complex and thought-through than you originally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  program, I spend a lot of time there. It's a research facility that ... science fiction books and then create a final project based off an idea from ... . Good enough view? Not for me either. So I got a closer one. Its a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG POST FOR A BRIEF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ... Unlike Snively's "Alaska" post of a year ago - which read, in its entirety ... Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment District - Cambridge's "alternative department store", featuring a giant heap of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010