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• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  performances. i had already forgotten the joy of listening to live music. it's the kind that makes me want to move my head to the music, to move my fingers to the beat, to run instead of walk. i went to maybe three or four

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it's so ... never thought i needed to bike anywhere, but y'all, i was wrong. SO wrong. it normally takes me ~8-10 minutes to walk to [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

     We decided to bake this enormous pie to remind you that MIT ... available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account. There

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that ... process by which projects come to fruition, and how very political those processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a ... current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done! Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  health internship." Little did I know that this would turn out to be an ... .org and tailored to be culturally appropriate to the Chinatown population) as health education materials to be distributed (as printed postcards

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming, but there are very few ways to actually understand what MIT is like. One

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... that basically allows you to upload photos and thoughts to the web in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... Mythbusters are not foreign to MIT. (Hops into Time Machine) The year was 2005

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we see words and sentences related to work, money, food, culture, and other ... , and we compare and contrast the different responses to gain perspectives

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  is basically a talent show with acts ranging from magic acts to dances to serenades. Some of the acts from the night included my former ... decided to juggle knives while "surfing" on a makeshift surfboard consisting

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... , education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some ... that of Tim Draper, who embraces the idea of countries trying to help

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things ... admitted, do you guys get to just relax until fall travel starts up again?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of obesity. This project intends to help people who are trying to lose weight

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give that power to someone else. Don't give it to your parents, don't give it to your siblings, don't give it to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That ... 't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was an incredible, incredible year. I learned to be comfortable with being ... firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou xiang" - a phrase that alludes to the traditional "tou xiang," a Chinese practice that is meant to bring good luck which entails being the first to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008