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• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , by an act of God, got a really nice sofa that fits perfectly. my bed ... get into my bed by climbing on the small bench-looking thing in front of ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  event was put on by the Division of Student Life and was a welcoming of ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . And speaking of Weird Al- even our music is being influenced by this ... One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a ... Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  by people completely unaware of my predispositions, I learned that I ... by train around 9:30. With two suitcases in tow— taking full advantage of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  ;= 7)[/annotation], and of course, I'm going to be starting off by ... classes were just...meh. Some of them were just absolutely ruined by a ... notable observation - that is made doubly clear by the color coding of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... an Uber from the airport. MIT Medical was closed by the time we arrived

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  has been thus far corroborated by one year of cheat sheet test taking ... by the copying down of any pset or practice exam questions that I think ... while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  by the entire world if I did so. Arguably, this is less of a costume ... going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show My Little Pony. That makes me solidly a member of that group of fans called

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  improve aren’t large tasks by any means. I spend a lot of time thinking to ... late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  experiments. By the end of the course they can read a recent journal article ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work calendar, Thursday was "Fronleichnam," or the feast of Corpus Christi. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to ... this IAP (with headers inspired by me realizing that parkour easily fit the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

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

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer ... went around to a bunch of different stations (math, language, reading

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011