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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  party raged on. Tech-y house music thumped through the disgustingly humid ... laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... right. Eyes on the Frisbee, I began to run sideways. BAM. Crashed into a ... rolled, lost my balance, fell. Ankle in pain. Head on knees. A chorus of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if ... (HERE!) on the first floor and is free to everyone :) Those artists who ... attending an LVAC Gallery Talk with Tavares himself back on June 3rd with Li

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... catch up on my nonrequired reading. Today's read was One Day, All Children ... interview round. I find out whether or not I've been accepted on Thursday, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... , but right there in one plate I’ve covered 3 groups on the food pyramid ... all similar to questions on quizzes and exams –because Mastering Physics

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  on my way to Hollywood, but found Christopher Columbus, who pointed me ... from my alma mater Morehouse College. FYI - That is my shoe on the ... , while I was on the road, there were a number of really interesting

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is ... you can move your part around on a table (like an etch-a-sketch) and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed ... yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... Hall's lounges at 11 pm on Sunday. 1.Take 7 times 4, multiply by 10, add

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC so far but couldn't shake the feeling that she was missing out on ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... nights ago, I cut across Killian Court on my way home from campus. It was ... evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  on their first vacation they thought their parents were so much smarter ... been gone a long time but I was reminded of this story when I went out on ... thoughts on the subject...so these are my "two cents"... Admitted: Obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  the blue paint on our walls wasn’t magic enough. And then I had to blog ... sitting on this deck in the woods, minding my own business, right, when ... party tent. But then the tree kind of fell on the house, I made a break

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title.) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... kitchen, the TV in the living room is left on channel 4 (NBC) which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  which were back-to-back), writing about 30 pages on subjects ranging from ... handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  the nobles, which focuses on four young ladies and gentlemen who quickly ... human boy up on her own, as best she can; Oberon is furious at her refusal ... —what is going on, who is doing it, and where it's happening. The best way to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  smelly for a couple of reasons: A) I didn't know I needed a seminar on ... ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the ... the seminar was at a restaurant where we dined on MIT's bill. A good

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  around Conner 2 (The floor on whichith I liveth). Well, the first isn ... 't purchase anything that was on sale, I did buy a lava lamp! I had a lava lamp ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... session on the Dot being held by a mutual friend, Christian Ternus '10 ... hooked on high dynamic range (HDR) photography, so he had been roaming

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  ." Let's start with a quote from Professor Ivanova on the wonderfully blunt ... short films and montages for fun, I can definitely agree that on the job ... class, we've been divided into groups to work on a film project that will

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either ... been outside on a cold, cloudy, rainy day when suddenly, almost without ... celebratory dinner with my family, the pride on my teachers' faces when I showed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008