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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  of Logan airport last Friday, including Celebrated Fellow Blogger Joel B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it ... resources department released guidelines on the type of language they are ... modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and ... control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red ... ' airplanes. This is kind of uncomfortable for everyone involved--imagine if you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon ... rendition of Auld Lang Syne. And then the whole theater had linked arms and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

   (Chinese and Japanese food) over on Beacon Street, Trident (a smorgasbord of ... Mass Ave, and of course, nearly every Chipotle (burritos!) located a ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP was spent taking full advantage of my week of no commitments by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  't have nearly as many hugs, spontaneous bursts of song, or sunbutter ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college ... the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... part of this organization since 2004, and this was my 4th visit to Uganda ... —to document the trip. Along with the camera, I carried roughly fifty rolls of

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students ... uneventful." My 4 pm-11 pm shift this past Sunday agrees with about 2/3 of ... the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... . However, over the years, I've heard a lot of advice and have even given some of my own. A lot of it is standard stuff, stuff that you'll hear all

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going to blog about them all at once RIGHT NOW instead of putting them off ... . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... building to connect the major cities of Sichuan, but I couldn't have been

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008