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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  forums to explore issues of cultural difference that lie deep beneath the ... Satrapi mixed explanations of her artistic process with nuggets of advice about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  scurvy. I walk to Trader Joe's and buy a 5 lb bag of oranges. I google ... successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  my words. The only way to know what it was like to get kicked out of ... 't comprehend the reality of being told not to come back after spring break. In ... to imagine it. I'm so grateful for those few extra hours of normalcy

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  still Internet though. We trickled in to Peru over the course of several ... of the two dozen folks who went to Peru for the weekend went hiking on Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT ... ; armadillo - A small set of drawers common to a select few dorms. beaver - The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]. One way to “derive” the formula for the area of a circle is by taking ... now, there’s one incredibly useful reason to use tau instead of pi: its ... important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character ... —are some of the moments in which I’ve felt most connected to others. Where ... ” from Chicago conveys the raw frustration of feeling misunderstood, the desire for others to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I ... . I force myself to articulate what exactly is so scary, what exactly I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  . I'm fortunate to not typically have test anxiety, but the amount of ... as a part of the HASS requirement, students have to take these classes ... still have to open MLA Citation Machine.   5.111 (Principles of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  the toilet. In front of me, next to the door, was a featureless white ... -aalaga sa'yo." Living alone is hard. There's no one to take care of you ... replied. Not quite. It means you're supposed to take care of yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... .  But the current method of launching space telescopes in single payloads ... , but orders of magnitude bigger. To put it in perspective with today

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the thorniest problems of neuroscience, from the nature of consciousness to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  , i see you MOSTEC...) driven a zipcar full of friends out to westford ... with the professor of my favorite technical class from last semester to ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who ... Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a ... scent.~ My friend is a big fan of perfumes and she's been taking me to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff ... . I had a lot of stuff to pack. Go figure. You accumulate a lot of stuff ... back of the truck was locked, and my key was returned to the front desk

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  to MIT: Student Life Services The Division of Student Life promotes ... schools students to teach motivated high school students the real meaning of ... sophomores, introduces students to the art of finding and succeeding at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease. Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions ... ? To see the rest of the article, you'll have to subscribe to Discover

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  drove home at 3:03pm and made a mental plan of everything I wanted to do ... twinge with heat. A bubbling pit of frustration in my chest began to build ... life compared to other students. For as long as I can remember, one of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... . Instead of having to acclimate to a lab that has been running for years, I ... the lore and details out of the way, it's time to get serious.  

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  sense of these tragic events, it is all too appealing – and unhelpful – to resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of ... and much other research that each year about 10 to 15 percent of college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010