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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  their feedback by conducting more experiments or counterarguing their ... "]reviews[/annotation] for my paper, and man they were [annotation note="alexa play 'brutal' by ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  . No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - I’ve seen the movie before ... by James M. Cain - This is a novella, and was originally published in ... don’t remember anything about it :P A Streetcar Named Desire by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  by hand, not with a script) on the people who had sent them from the ... years these are from. Figure 1a: Underwear Color by Undergraduate Dorm I ... : Underwear Color by Non-Dorm Living Group      I just checked out Harry Potter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... 'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... pistol). They are mostly taught by Coach Mike Conti, who has served in the ... judged by the tightness of our group (the greatest distance between any two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture ... minute, I cued the other two, who responded by making their noises

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  believe that teaching is an art form: preparation followed by performance ... : what would I accomplish by head-butting this repeatedly? I jumped up ... * Heart-breaking Example 2 *solving an equation for x* Me: “So, is x by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  frizzy hair (quite overdue for a wash day by now), giving up on it, rushing ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. The latter I was convinced to take by the graduate ... , and by the time I finished I will have been an undergraduate researcher

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  Gesthemane until the tomb is sealed by Joseph of Arimathea. He wheezes ... Triduum service hosted by the Tech Catholic Community. On Holy Thursday I am ... chicken and rice prepared by the hospitality team is warm, and delicious. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... home feel a world away; I am being taken by both the excitement and the ... ! internally! about! how! quickly! the! year! flew! by!) Anyway...consider this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter cold has been replaced by stifling heat and humidity, with the two week ... bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  psychiatrist found me a practice covered by my insurance, and i went through ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the ... formerly joyful turned to chores. like being blown by erratic winds, ones

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  , dedicated to Downtown Boston. Boston Common Located conveniently by the Park ... ? That would be the world-famous Kilted Colin, entertaining by Faneuil Hall. For a festive mood, there’s also Christmas lights and music shows by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -assaulter. (If by some equally beautiful coincidence you're reading this now, Matt ... , by my standards, an excellent TA. Teaching 5.112 this semester has ... would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  /mobile UI is triggered by the width of your browser). The annotations are ... , the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases, brought by the same ... are typically released by the end of June, and the Court usually

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  used in the video, photographed by fellow student Chheangkea I. '17 Now ... shots of MIT were done by a drone! I really enjoy all the tops of the ... class, but you can’t make them pay attention, as she demonstrates by half

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  post some of them here. My day started off by running to lecture because I was late (what else is new), but then I got distracted by Benson L ... note="we're supposed to take 4 PE classes by the end of sophomore year. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  really beautiful photographs by doc edgerton. i made a list of pieces i ... quickly. i left with a painting by ria brodell that seemed to be part of a ... -based artist, had actually written a book by the same name with more paintings

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  . The specific values and choices we disagree with are as follows: 1. By ... departments. 2. By centering the Field of Economics, this display further ... worthy of celebration. 3. By centering the Nobel Prize in Economics, this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Office was formally created in 1929, led by the Institute’s first ... 1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later. Since this application would have been completed by students in the 1972

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022