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• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  , and I, uh, saw an ostrich. Well, uh, I also tried to solve the energy ... I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember ... to mind is that of an exhaust pipe, sputtering and spewing smoke into ... awash with students bustling to and fro. floorpi feels like it’s a little

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does ... Halloween, and best of luck to those of you applying EA tomorrow. =)  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  reflect on the transition back to MIT from a place where I have lived and ... seen, you have to allow it.  You have to invite people in, and it ... easy to say that some people and/or places just don’t get me, but harder

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  office, going to info sessions, and wading through the internet’s many ... to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant ... , “helps keep us humble and not take ourselves too seriously, or to feel too

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  , he likes to set things on fire, and he once hooked a rather powerful ... I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... in time to continue on my merry thermodynamical way. And finally, Ruth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... does the average MIT student have to watch TV?" Throughout my first two ... performance shows and The Amazing Race, every week, no matter what I had to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  commenting upon and sharing? Lots of stuff! Too much, in fact, to do anything ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... * surprised by Snively's and Anthony's, and so are they; we don't know what to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  facility and to be able to properly deal with radioactive contamination ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... and was even...cool...enough to make it into Ben's awesome

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , and dialogue to tell a story a theatre production is… y’know   ... share and suddenly bring them to life on stage. It’s as if someone pressed pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  who would devote so much time, affection and care to her craft, to her ... away, I put my headphones on and I play some Taylor Swift. My go-to ... beautiful, laidback song and I was interested in listening to more. But it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start out looking messed up, like this: And eventually looking much more ... moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to ... populate and self-organize in any given space. So basically, I’m trying to ... segments, and 6 more raising them to different inclines). How would you feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  underclassmen, to launch Global Poverty Week (GPW) and the first intercollegiate ... Institute priority, just like energy (check out http://web.mit.edu/gpi/ to see ... the country to learn about poverty and, ultimately, connect with each

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• 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 ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because ... ’re like me and want your recording to actually sound good or have a lot of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  report on ross gay's poems once, in 21.487, and he actually came here to ... it's amazing how much help and good will is available to you if you ... windowsill. recently, most people i've talked to have been high-strung and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  Jaleo,” by John Singer Sargent. Its impressive size and energy is captivating and irresistible. I had to resist taking photos though, because it ... the impossible-to-avoid the courtyard. It’s fabulous, and glass

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  21 students (and I'm not planning on moving out anytime soon). Not to ... how much my opinion matters or would apply to future students, but here ... years by which dinners you chose to go to during Rush week? And, like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008