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• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  for. People invest in a variety of different boots. In addition to the ... . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The ... good thing MIT isn't in the Northea...oh wait...       ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... DEFINITELY in this building, and we DEFINITELY do not have exams." Ten seconds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... aborted experiment in homemade black bean burgers is sublimated into a thick

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  a classroom in building 66, parked my butt down for 3 hours and took a ... I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping <

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W.735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS ... . Forces! Trusses! Flying Buttresses! For undergraduate and graduate students

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  . So, who's in for the movie weekend? Who's excited for the movie? ... MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should only take a second, and I haven't blogged in so long that I got pushed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams ... (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  in length from 1 to 2 hours for lecture. Some labs, however, are up to four hours long in some cases (like tomorrow for me). Shen asked: And ... course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my ... destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not ... doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  line outside the gallery doors for a second chance to participate in this ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  shower, while grocery shopping, probably even in my sleep. For the longest ... explain. A lot of it is tangled in details too personal for the blogs, but ... times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average

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

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... organ for us. Here's a picture of the Kresge organ: It was built in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  submitting nine events for my floor, which was more than we've done in past ... , expressed their interest in moving to BC, and talked to us for quite a bit of ... until Fall 2022. i am currently living in East Campus, but i spent the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  temperature in check. I personally have very little sympathy for people who ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022