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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  ." John Lewis Jackson was born in Ladonia, Texas, one of five children of ... at the conclusion of "Our Friends," it's not just about Nobel Laureates ... , talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour ... behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  myself, mostly because my birthday always falls at the start of the school ... into the air, aiming at different patches of sky. Sometimes, a friend ... The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... community stay healthy, and even though I feel overwhelmed at times, I really love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  -run events[/annotation] at the beginning of Orientation, with the aim of ... of that, but geared towards dorm exploration! At both CPW and REX there ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... microwaved ramen we ate last night while trying to finish slews of problem sets ... coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  transition at once. All of this abstract, though. Aimless musings on an aimless ... post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... very healthy--it’s the end of the semester ok. At this point, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being ... 's last biology lecture of the semester. Only at MIT does one of the world ... quantities of alcohol for the sake of scientific education. Because only at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  schedule[/caption] 6.191: Computation Structures. Goal of this class: learn ... ---when I saw my friend typing rapidly on his computer it reminded me of ... me well to know this is true but the goal of this course is to learn

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  and work at MIT, ten years ago today. I've been thinking about what I ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... congratulated me. I asked him to tell me about MIT, and he sort of spread his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... for a few hours and reconvened at 6pm for a tour of Chatelet-Les Halles ... Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term's almost over

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  was a simulated base attack, and some of the cadets were "injured" at ... pretty stressful at times, and at the end of the day I was exhausted, I can ... C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  anything, for that matter, coming at me at a 45-plus-degree angle.   < ... degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever ... One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... at MIT, and it lets you plan out your classes over a longer period of ... trajectories of my life at MIT. My CourseRoad shows at least 25 saved roads

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  at a random spot in a maze. The robot has a map of the maze in its ... to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... 's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  heading home. Protip: at the beginning of a semester, ask upperclassmen for ... .  Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I ... I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013