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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... , that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  one day do an entry devoted to ice cream in Boston/Cambridge, what do ... browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... . Boston has a lot of other exciting events in store to celebrate it's 375th

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  questions 4 u about MIT but had to get in gear and out the door. btw I am so ... . Then, somewhere in between taking campus tours and discussing how to ... you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... how long it would take the '12s to notice. We wandered into line and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  -- to what extent outreach is valued in the scientific community." Neil ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... :30 (with our Mexican take-out food in hand) to claim second-row seats, which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... about the action.” To which I respond, “How clever of you, I was just ... students to study and design technology for developing communities in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to ... even in covid times. Knowing that at the end of the week I'll be able to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  want it to be. The community's physical space also plays a role in how ... from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving ... might not be able to exist in the way we want to once we move back in, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  Gospel Choir Performing. ABOVE: Mocha Moves (It was really hard to get a ... original spoken word. What impresses me about it is how a person can get into ... to see a variety of performances in one evening. Attending Pulse

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... thought] led me to study Japanese, in order to learn about its history and ... , my parents were planning on going to a wedding in Korea and decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  Dome) Hacks and meta-hacks (an MIT map gets modified to include the ... . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... teeth. It's sneaking into people's rooms to hide presents in them, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go ... of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  contrast was pretty tricky to get right, but I'm pretty happy with how it ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home ... for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... and I know that I know how to keep moving forward. All through this ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... trips abroad in summer, so adjusting to being away from home ended as soon

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing, or deciding how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... . He had to leave in a hurry, but he gave me one to try out - Horace the pig ... finally washed off and Horace faded away to the great beyond. I'll miss you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the ... my breakfast in my pajamas. 9-ish - I start to head back upstairs to ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018