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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is ... entire week was dominated by the preparation of, implementation of, and ... program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera ... form of an online course, especially given that virtual school has given me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but ... spreadsheet. It is my equivalent of decorating a bullet journal or buying fancy face wash. It's called living a little. 1.035: Mechanics of Materials

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab was graded, i was still passing 0% of the tests. i needed to sleep, and ... , concentrating itself inside the depths of my heart, slowly growing as the night

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean ... the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  disciplines (scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights ... are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being ... , and is consistent with a set of key principles, including non

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... things. First: some of you may follow alien/human (and MIT PhD student ... of the publication of his new book (!!!), Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  . From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks, partially ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us united by this one weird thing or set of things that keeps us moving (it ... , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect ... process, with all the tranquility and order of the Republican National Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... Grumman. So there we are, the students of the sophomore "aeroastro boot camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ... major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... not, @horse_ebooks helped inspire an entire genre of surrealist _ebooks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now ... to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of 2018. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  , it means: Meh, was a busy month; definitely first week of February. On ... resolution this year. -- It’s 2014! 2013 was the year of Wrecking Ball, What Does the Fox Say, the premiere of the Class of 2017, the finale of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012