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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So ... brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... for us to monitor what was going on during the simulation. We wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  activity. He said: "No. If you want to do it, do it on your own." Over the ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... 's still very useful for all of us to sit around and talk about how we do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  now. Oh boy... Part 5 (how to train your rock) Things go wrong... let ... Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  question: "a year from now, how intact do you want your emotions to be ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  on campus, you can learn how to feed film reels into cranky old ... - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... ? Somewhat consoled and way too hyped about getting into MIT to be feeling too

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... bashes a thinly-disguised ex and upload it to Soundcloud only to get two ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  . Though your MIT ID Card won't get you free admission, you still might be ... Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get used to - such as on the day before I started working at RIKEN, when I ... totally drove me crazy trying to figure out what to wear on my first day (I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... on the last day of class they invite a local string quartet group to ... ’t very hard - there’s just a checklist of requirements your music has to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  , you’re essentially being paid to do homework or watch movies on your ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... before a meet? Save your candy ‘til later. Homecoming on Saturday night

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  meeting up on Saturday mornings in local cafes to chat in Spanish. Getting ... , and you'll get to share your knowledge with others while improving your ... Africa. This semester, I'm making the journey to Harvard to take a class on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  and climb on. Mice can swim, but they don't like to, so he learns pretty ... result! The paper based on this work is currently in submission to Cell, which is one of the top three journals in biology. And I get to be co

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team ... 's campus tournament! So have some fun, get closer to your dorm-mates and ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  manage to get a spot on an intermediate dance in Dance Troupe and thus ... least once, to join in on the dance line that seemed to move effortlessly ... of years, but to answer the question “how did I start dancing” the only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you're ... 'll spare the gory details. Suffice to say, the warm and copious food on the ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  is to continue working on it when your pen has already started moving ... well. Once you start lightening the load, your hardware tries to hang on ... class than it is after getting a full 8 hours of sleep. Your body has

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014