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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  disposed of it down the chute. By dinnertime the neighborhood was quiet. The ... once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  stupidity. Especially if you're distracted by the thought of taking your first ... entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  Parallel"]Walounge[/annotation] by the armful and shopvaccing layers of ... resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm East Campus"]Tetazoo[/annotation] and a resident of [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  its first round of data collection, ALMA was over-subscribed by a factor ... our project. I got sick of writing the proposal by this evening -- so ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  Decide to skip molecular bio (7.28) recitation. Tempted by the prospect of ... front desk of dorm. People hardly come by during this time, so get to get ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... healed me. Looping together yarn in that simple way, hands guided by forces unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  not one of them. By the time the debate ended, the phone had stopped ... about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  important things." Photo by Dominick Reuter, courtesy of MIT News.   ... . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... ", Texas whereby "Suburbia" I mean for my first year of high school, I lived in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  to help protect other satellites by knocking harmful particles out of ... MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  culture in my games and culture class, taught by one of the first ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  still stand by these statements (except, of course, "I've never been ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian Court!   We’re talking big, fluffy, ephemeral flakes of snow, not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  demonstrated. By flinging balls of snow at me :( And then he said those magic ... eternal nothingness, or got kicked down by a bunch of bored kids. Oh well ... Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  group of students jamming with guitars, passed by the MIT marching band ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010