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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT ... is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a ... to begin with), and when I talked to him about it, he said that he

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  general I taught PUF a “sit” command, but PUF is smart enough to ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... this up onto a loft. It didn’t look like it was small enough to be

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a ... now is to assure you that whatever happens in two days, you are going to ... experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of sounding

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... -ray spectroscopy, including its application to Jean-Francois Millet's "Angelus ... painting to be quite curious, so he asked for it to be examined by x

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

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  [annotation note="shoutout to KEXP Seattle. yes this is my dad’s favorite radio ... (passionfruit orange guava). i had to look up what POG stood for. POG is also a ... out how I am going to unpack, go to 4 different meetings, buy groceries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  enticing it is, and how it makes you want to stay, and i wanted to stay ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... have something good, I’ll copy and paste it to a new document to organize

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape ... !) yesterday that "spring is a tease. It's never as warm as it looks and ... the semester is stressful for everyone. For me, it's a plodding

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  conceived. Its purpose is “to promote mental health and community engagement ... MIT is for the hosed students who want to “burst the MIT bubble,” that ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give ... excited to do showcase with it, but unfortunately due to covid we were

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  eyes do. A camera is more sensitive to brights than to darks, so if it ... little gatekeeper: it controls how much of its respective color is able to ... polarization filter is. It is analogous to anything with a series of slits that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  'm not fond of, it is pretty difficult for anything to come out. Luckily ... . Still, it is pretty interesting to see what major/area combinations are ... .[/annotation] All and all, the fall semester had its ups and downs. I wanted to write

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  , that means it's under the great dome. People tell me this is the best ... room is good for doing work. You can hear a pen drop. And it's pretty ... know the adults that work here, so it's wierd for me to do it. But there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  of course, he should do it. And then I started to think about the kids ... . Basically, the approach in this program is to allow students to understand the ... is that I can get up from my desk to stretch and travel down the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  hope you're enjoying it. The long weekend, that is (or normal ... to colleges as well. But it's important to take down-time, too. Some ... or whatever it is that you do. If you're busy doing things that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  right now -- because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... taken, just fake it to make it.  I’ve heard people say -- usually to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... is scheduled to open within the next month. My lab, as noted above, is ... lab. I am happy to report that it does, and I spent a few minutes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  , we won’t consider them for anyone. We think it would be unfair to ... we wanted to make sure no one was spending more time or energy studying ... MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to present this year! (Stay tuned until day 2 to see it.) Also unlike last year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  perspective on who i am and what it takes for me to be happy. this is a post for ... , just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February ... teenagers and handwritten signs and it was so fucking much. It was so much to ... finally able to go back in person and experience it all together again. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021