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• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... only solace in the fact that, every time I took the 1 bus up the street ... changes like this in every corner of my being. When I started singing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this ... !" I'm not sure how far this goes into convincing skeptics of the truth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  happened next was inspiring.  I've always thought that you can tell a lot ... Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... or root against. And then today's tragic events happened.  In a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  listen, and I actually kind of enjoyed it! I can't really describe how ... I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  . Nothing gold can stay. etc. etc. etc.  We obviously couldn’t leave without one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  absolutely the right decision. I took three classes in my major this last ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the ... .006 test. This was a problem. I can't study during CPW, especially since I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... .) *With Class of 2013 matriculation decisions due in less than three days, I ... here, but I think I want to join. In the same vein, Lin was present at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... this in another blog, but I did nearly all of my readings this semester! I was in a writing workshop that assigned 60-100 pages of fiction per

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  .) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely ... is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  /baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... family, friends, food, and fun! You can learn more about Jennifer ... Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  fact that I can't even remember what it was.) I feel like Carly Rae Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... , her album E•MO•TION came out in middle school. I remember coming across

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  I was in China. Look, here's proof! : Just Wednesday night, I was ... much though, because of copyright issues. For my part, I was working in ... is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... books signed. Sadly, I found out about it too late and I was in class ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... share with a few other engineering-related student groups (I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  safety. But how can anyone feel truly safe and secure without proper ... creations in my [annotation note="No, I am not working, this is just a jo ... , food Instagram @thefrenchdormitory, where I can at least pretend that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021