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• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  Hi! I'm blogging live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl, the ... you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while ... -zaggy one), but ran into zoning problems, among other things, but that's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... Staples building. You can't see it from this picture, but there's a ... , bean stew over rice, green tea ice cream, red bean ice cream, flan, and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... Meetings... it's a busy time! While I am back in Boston, look for my next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... during a tumultuous period of economic crises and political unrest, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... housemaster of East Campus dormitory. We chatted a bit about my slowly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... (Tommys?) were really cute. The five-year old one sure played a mean pinball

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

   FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS ” -D.A. Twins 2/25/2018 (we imagine our words echoing after we throw them ... named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we ... , Danny mentioned a conversation he had with Alaisha A. ‘18, who actually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across the bridge that sometimes detects me as a moving entity. My record on my rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore but not really feeling "older". I felt like I was still a first year ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  i don't care about things any more. all these student groups i'm a ... students who've never touched a nerf gun before the opportunity to shoot one. i wanted to give middle school and high school students a chance to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  changes and preview the short answer prompts, a much larger group is likely ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least ... follow directions. Incomplete information:  There are a number of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the ... machines, you'll hear it. Feel it, even. A tiny, rhythmic pulse that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  any good walking form should be: sustainable - if you stumble upon a ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at ... it’s a really nice day outside then i think you should walk slower

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  directly lived has moved away into a representation.[/caption] [caption id ... aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can ... its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams ... for myself. a friend i talked to about my dreams thinks it's neither

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  had everything ready already, but hitting the 'Submit' button takes a ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away from home for months at a time, but I also believe the general atmosphere

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of serious reflection. After a thirty minute act geared around refugee and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017