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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  indoor market for locally sourced food. I don’t know how good the prices ... reasonable. Most don’t speak English, so you’ll have to point and gesticulate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  ). Don't think too much. Write as fast as you can. There's no correct way ... the eggs. One rolls to and from me in a breeze I don’t feel, like a boat

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... creepy. I don’t blame him for being dubious. We talked more. About tour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  : If you're not into this, don't worry—you don't have to be very good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't ... don't understand how it subtracts." -Richard Feynman "Analyzing humor

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the ... ! At the end of the day I don’t think I’ve fully answered the question

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don't ... coolest projects I've ever seen. Without the rigor of MIT, I don't think

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  , well, just a college. and don’t get me wrong, i love it here, but ... . we have cockroaches and parties and odd sleep schedules, and we don’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard ... Baldwin--even if we don't know it." And then, in case clarification was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #Buy ... culture comes 99% from Downton Abbey and Sherlock).  We, uh, don't have many

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  on par with a Dalai Lama/Noam Chomsky kind of lecture. In case you don't ... about all humans being connected... I don't want to end this post too

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  to figure it out. I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for a big ... prefrosh? Don't be afraid to deviate from the standard MIT technological path

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  trying to find one. This is incredibly unlikely; boards of 12 rarely don’t ... force this in Python pretty easily." Jeff: "Are you sure? I don’t think it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  working towards the most optimal solution. But engineers, we don’t always ... thing I’m slowly learning is: Don’t judge a good decision by how the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  friend group, and don’t worry if it takes some moving around. Personally, I ... , for those of you who are concerned about stranded prepositions). I don’t

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  took the question lightly. Yeah? Maybe? Does it matter? I don’t have ... jotting down Whatever...all the things that I like and don't like, that make

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  Well well well... WE MEET AGAIN. I told you guys our paths would cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... that science and scientists don't necessarily look like what you see in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  away, you’re making our eyeballs uncomfortable.” Most people don’t give a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... times I don't want to be anywhere else. I do belong here, after all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014