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• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  really crucial, and otherwise I just sort of skated by on ignorance. And ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... mind of the speaker and the listener, and miscommunication arises when

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  dolphin. The stack of paper is your course notes. They were written by your ... few remnants of said soul by the end of your first semester... Five ... know, the one accompanied by a feeling of absolute relief, by a "look

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently got elected social chairs of Burton 1, and to celebrate that we had a Pi

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

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Brothers Big Sisters of America and is being sponsored by Chi Phi fraternity ... Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  experiencing something new, of feeling engulfed by the atmosphere of a place ... …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of ... check and wandering around by foot, but now I dash out of Union Station ... ’ve passed by plenty of small, sparse towns—often condescendingly referred to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  (the entire historic center of Pavia and this Vigoni cake is protected by ... , everyone seemed awed into silence by the unexpected grandeur of seeing the ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  by spoils, they mean a 3-D printed rendering of Charles Darwin looking ... one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades ... person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  of "Somebody to Love" by Queen, and it's a song that you could adapt ... fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  The following entry was written by the very cool and talented Minh ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations ... qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... stand side-by-side, each one holding three or four floors. Each floor is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  wear. That has since been replaced by an assortment of sweatshirts, t ... neutrinos had surpassed the speed of light. But the best symbol by far? If ... whole bezel), two are by the end of its tail, and another two are toward

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  reproducible by the rickshaw factory. This also includes testing a variety of ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered ... for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  fame was a visit some years ago by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith -- they had ... were had by all, and he even told us some stories of his college days ... decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  individuals’ movements in public—by foot, vehicle, or other mode of ... of transportation-tracking technologies by requiring that cities ... – by foot, vehicle, or other mode of transportation. Cities must follow a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  furniture and, hazed by a callous carousel of Logan-traipsing on four hours of ... sure you don't want a cookie? Me (in a mild state of panic, since by now ... Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009