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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  presidency? I was extremely excited to find out. I showed up at the Welcome Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning ... my hand shot up first. I asked about students, of course (I almost felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to

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

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  just to be an extra pair of hands. i kinda initially regretted signing up to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much ... appreciation for mit's collective coolness has grown deeper.) i recently beat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... the soundtrack for the ending scenes. These songs have come to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two ... now you are the invisible daughter for your mom.   Distance is to ... App, The one million “I miss you” through texts, And the longing for that

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  to visit improv shows and eat hot pot. For our second to last day, we took long walks between campus, the Museum of Science (free for MIT ... campus, but it’s perfect for me. No other dorm gives every resident their

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  rare for me since I am an EXTREMELY shy person. He also pushed me to be ... thankful for all my friends. They've made my time here all the better and ... clinic hosts a gender support group every week where we just meet up and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... ’d walk along the beach for a stroll, hoping to find one. We did this for ... her shell lift up and down. During this time, we tried to walk around

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  Arts Center, and read the sign for an upcoming exhibition, and vow to one ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and ... Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, and the Urban Studies

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  kiddie kid stuff for little kids. He went to the informative events, but ... kiddie things for fun but he didn't share those interests. Even though I ... to know people from so many backgrounds, all with different ideas for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  disease'...the preventative measure for this is actually feeding cows ... Davie '12's alarm (he's crashing with me for a few nights before moving ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words ... up all over campus, like turning the Green Building into a gigantic ... simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural ... can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it ... vibrate. As we turned up the volume, the molecules in the glass vibrated ... understanding this. Yay brains! Yay neurons! You have them to thank for all those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up ... “know” which chromosomes match up with which during anaphase (dividing of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  his friends). The video shows his reactions to the programs. For most ... along. Jaekyung's second work was a performance art piece he did for a ... who wanted to could come up and take a whack at the drum. I asked

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  for "Sharpe Brothers" - they have some pretty sweet videos up there ... who perform (juggle? spin? What's the correct verb for this?) diabolo ... /disliked/bookmarked/etc. For those that don't know about Pandora yet, it's basically free online

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was ... the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a ... he wound up there anyway, leading his team and his conference in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009