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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  East Campus has a reputation. It's known as the mysterious and ... , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  purpose. Why take a class on race if you can’t read racist articles? The TF ... double check myself every time I speak in this class. It’s a new experience ... courtyard, only with more grass and buildings of a different color. This makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... . Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club ... Collier's Cranes, a hack of thousands of paper cranes hung suspended inside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging ... courses, but I've also committed to a bunch of cool side projects/UROPs that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a ... . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with ... "Shake It Off," the band sung "Make It All" a song about how we students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... a poster that said this food truck along with one giving out 'gourmet ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions ... reading on. Set is rather popular on my floor, Conner 3. My suite has a

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

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic ... , I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time, earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I’m currently planning on taking a summer@future class, Creating Digital Learning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli ... ! We even got to take a series of prom pictures! We also took

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of ... technical term, because he spent a lot of time talking with Galileo ... : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big red box. When I was but a tiny fetus, I remember counting down those

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his keyboard as well. Jenn, the perpetrator, tells us that there are a lot ... a July 4 party at my house, and all the other summer students came

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight ... !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  . 21W.021, also known as "MIT 150:Inside, Live",  is a CI-HW (Writing ... prompt that resulted in these two comics was a simple one, "take your role as a participant-observer at MIT and find a fresh way to present your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012