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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  composed symphony. How often does an opportunity like that come around?! The ... Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a ... Williamson, who sang You Make Me Feel So Young, I Stayed too Long at the Fair

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  , and I'll be off to Hartford, Connecticut. You can view the entire schedule and RSVP online. Following the Hartford meeting, I'll be heading out ... Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... depending on traffic and wait time between connecting busses. I usually prefer ... happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page calendar called "Rainbow Lounge Open House." I had no idea what that meant

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  attempt to learn how to adult a little more, and as a result, I can now ... interesting problems I tackled and the imposter-syndrome-inducing people I met ... . I was on a Site Reliability Engineering team, which managed the data

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it. It would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... reason about them. So I thought I’d take the opportunity of doing something I never thought I’d do at MIT—giving you an intro to my classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That was really kind of terrible form, I know. But Ben and my mom are conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT ... sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... a long, tedious process that I wasn't a part of since I had class from ... dozens of movie nights since. We do still need another couch, however. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ...   On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  , rice, and vegetables :) --- It's 6:45 AM, and I've spent all of ... )). My 24-hour journey back to Taiwan begins at 9:30 AM and I'm heading off ... semester I had (and coincidentally, also with the worst grades - if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... , stupid frosh to make bad decisions. I've been sticking to a relatively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

      (Photo credit for these two goes to Julie H. '11) I was amazed by how ... traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... love and hugging. I was Secret Santa to Caitlin '15. We share a love of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I ... SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  “PUSH IT PUSH IT.” Immediately, we both just grinned, because how can you ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i ... on sand. You didn’t realize it would be as hard as it actually is, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated ... the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... this so I can talk about the MATCH school. It's one of the many Community

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005