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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  sketches, etc. The end of a GR is usually marked by a four-minute class ... , but our mistake—not the first of the day, not by a long shot ... astounded by the things the Institute continues to teach me, even outside of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender ... “Young Ladies Etiquette”, held up by what must be the strongest piece of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... contest hosted by the Japanese consulate of Boston. Maekawa-sensei, thank ... (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ducks instead of koi fish) Oh, and every room comes with one of these

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets, tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup instructions sitting in front of rows and rows of chairs. We (the interns) were ... yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  , we were walking by the moat of the MIT chapel, which is just an empty ... -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... online. Stand by the phones guys, we're callin' everybody! 7:18 pm Matt Mc ... pretty much every aspect of freshman life at MIT. I love this school and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to ... figured that I'd let you know what I'm taking this term, since some of you ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... faster than Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. When asked by the then

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  compile a list of restaurants owned/managed by MIT alums, and this is one of ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  anywhere in Boston by T. 11. Like a plant, I need a certain amount of ... This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... .111 (Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems), so we weren't exactly best buddies. In ... there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007