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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  're forced to collaborate with others and kind of work through this hardship ... can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  'm forced to spend it in a way that I feel is meaningful. This includes ... I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350 a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... out to be my favorite class that term (the others were 8.04 8.044 18

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to my own, Air Force members who show me how it’s possible to lead with ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... doesn’t guarantee you success, or even lead you to success

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  some sort of anti-hero in my own story. I am not forced to be cast as the ... , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of ... Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  shorter commitment. I forced the walk to my weekly club activity. By the ... fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, began as an effort to provide repairs and basic necessities to homes of impoverished families in ... -dimensional effort to help the residents of Gretna in all areas of life, not just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... -developing formal curriculum to support it. And, as someone who has taught MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the bezel of ring. The Committee looked to the original discussion over the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015