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• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with preset furniture, dorm rules, and maybe even a giant curved wall that doesn

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  football mascot by their weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obtRtrk42a8 ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... available about their physical measurements. I decided a phylogenetic tree

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan ... , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an official biography and photograph, followed by the Q&A: Dr. Jonathan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now ... that this entire enterprise is nothing more than a spinoff of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the ... the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a ... try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog. Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Mary Lou Hazal, A&M-Commerce News Jun 29, 2009 ACCEPTED TO MIT - Cory ... fall. This summer they are mentors in Project STEEM, a program at Texas A ... Landers attended Project STEEM as high school students in 2007. (A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  MIT, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about the money situation and ... , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  note="Simmons Dining's quality really fell off a cliff this semester, and ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a pleasant surprise -- a plethora of beautiful vintage bird stamps, two bags full of my old copic markers (expensive!), a couple prints made by my old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  This fall, I took 21W.762 Poetry Workshop with Ed Barrett, a popular ... ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read it out aloud during class for a round of feedback. And that was it! I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should ... those books you've been meaning to. When you ask what message a city

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020