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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... -to stress-relief jam is usually Shake It Off, and after several hums of “I ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I ... beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny Moore of Aevitas Creative Entertainment. If you’re curious about how that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  amount of lotion can combat eczema when it's caused by something that is ... This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately ... ="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the ... walk around carrying a trumpet out of its case in one hand all day. Of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... Pittsfield, MA, or so. I was surprised by the number of people who took the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... drive a couple of months back much less painful) and I found some fun ... great series of connections that I've managed to make, I think I've found

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... taking pictures of sweaty people for future blackmail purposes. It

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... hundreds of invited guests include sponsors, mentors, and coaches. Among the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is actually about how I spent my Saturday. I was invited by several of my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  preparatory reading of You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen. It sounds ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... 've gone by "Ben" my whole life, that actually comes from my middle name - my ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

   ongoing Portraits of Resilience series of narrative photojournalism by Professor ... hundreds, maybe thousands, of people, not only across campus, but among ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  calculated the number of words that a character spoke on average by dividing their word count by the amount of times they speak. To apply these ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  goal, by the end of four years, is to be able to pull together a tasty ... **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning ... last week to a small rural area of India called Anaikatti. Since then, I ... beauty of this place is reason enough to be here – but the actual purpose

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Weekend, but you're wrong. CPW really means "4 days of Pure a ... on large chunks of text unless said chunks of text are arranged into some sort of visually appealing shape, like a circle or better yet, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008