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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks. I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  squirrels. With Spotify playing in both ears, The freedom of a lazy Saturday, And the warm glow of waning summer sun, I feel like I could sit in this ... apprehensive about joining a lab for the first time. I thought, “Wow, so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of ... on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... with us. About the number of people who share a room, freshmen generally do most of the sharing. (I don't know much about how it works after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... complained at first, but in the end, she didn’t regret it. Niederdenkmal - the mountain monument The View. This escapade of ours explains why I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lol” kind of way, since one of the first things I had to get used to at ... course 2A, I filled out my first change of major form two weeks before the ... were commended for being the first team in the history of the class to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  It's that time of year again - SpringFest!  This past weekend was filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... the first three songs, I had some down time to go around and see some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... was pretty much the first delicious meal I've had from a restaurant ... . Perhaps Book-A-Minute gives the most insightful analysis of all. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  the first time), and I have a better grasp on the actual stakes of a ... don't know if setting a goal like "have completed the first draft of my ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... first environmentally advanced apartment building in the US. The Solaire ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy ... implemented as some kind of COVID-prevention measure, but my first impressions

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  /MIT: Two things - first, put yourself - your true self - into all of the ... . Favorite things about Boston: The local music scene, the youthful feel of the ... first 5 Steven Seagal movies (everything after the first 5 sucked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... Mafia where surprisingly I, as one of the Mafia, managed to stay alive

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction. This marks the end of a very good start to what will be a very good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... ’s drumline. I was once apart of four different musical ensembles at the same ... Arizona desert, where I spent the remainder of my pre-college days in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  drowned out by the blinding rays of a familiar sunset. I adore the sight ... ’t going to jump out of the screen and stop me from carving some pumpkins ... shaved in the pattern of “MIT” in the back: This would all look much

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  first borns. The topic in question? Bathrooms. Apparently bathrooms are a ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of ... the bucket! First, the biggies: 1) The bathrooms are coed 2) The

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... : radio astrophysics, a measurement of the 21cm hydrogen line*. 3. Starting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012