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• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... a bad thing, and she wasn”t saying that we can”t fully use and enjoy ... “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  write about a topic that we should know a lot about: our classes. I ... Engineering Problem Solving). My classes this semester are a little different ... to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving)- This is a required class

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this ... ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I ... (1.013) has a four-hour lab 12-4pm on Wednesday, which blocks out a lot

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... magazine site that I visit daily called "The Root". The article was a feature ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... local television, my dad mentioned the word “fridgey” when referring to a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... a large vacation home located near a lake in the town. The owners of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... showing at the World Cup, that was probably a mistake.) The other team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ". Although your host is probably a fairly awesome person, they'll be around for ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a-CPWtime events and have once-in-a-CPWtime experiences! If you like your host, maybe

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it's with a complete and total stranger. Most of these conversations consist

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... . -- 1 AM on a Friday night, I decided to break out my art supplies and ... evenings before. You see - the walk down West Campus’s dorm row is a (weather

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

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of tech like a computer or iPod? Or will I unexpectedly shift gears into a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... hounded with endorsement deals (well okay maybe Snively is) but it's a ... . Horrible references... and no bulls... and quite a few vegetarians, actually

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always ... never really looked into what they meant. . . There are a variety of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... public. Watch until the end; there's a small surprise.) (The Curious

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... , sadly, it had made like a ghost and vanished by early afternoon

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your ... lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going ... next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008