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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  being overcome, filled, enlivened, lit? Or is there no edge, no border ... I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I ... - but only because, as is so often the case with vacations, I return from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... welcomed the Class of '09 to MIT at Convocation, so I guess you can say she

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that ... , looking at nearly forty-year-old man in the mirror, where a bright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent ... the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... everywhere. It is EXHAUSTING. I love you, Mom!] So anyway, after that moment

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  ! Like Pokemon, Harry Potter is, in my opinion at least, a defining ... organized a Harry Potter event - yup, MIT = cool. P.S. For those of you ... A lot of 'lasts' happened this past week: - I turned in my last 5

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  say I can’t help but be myself. “You wear your heart on your sleeve ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  is essentially a collection of all of this: moments big and small since ... . Honestly, all it takes to make me happy is a little sunlight and a little ... ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I

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

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  service. *This if-condition is hilarious for several reasons that you will ... . Ippudo's rendition of pork buns is miraculous: a luxuriously soft cushion ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  wayyyy too early (anything pre-December is too early in my book, in case you were wondering). This year I was far more concerned with all the mid-semester work than coming up with an awesome costume, but such is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... ." me: "OH!!" a few minutes later we were all outside trying to catch ... that in allston and almost threw up because of the smog. but!!! there

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  love his music. Joey Perricone is a sophomore studying physics and ... outside of the traditional classroom, let Joey serve as proof that you can ... that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  *. There is no such thing as an actual black box containing an exact Thevenin ... , two recent physics-related strips generated a little bit of controversy ... Thevenin and Norton circuits. One can turn any two-terminal circuit that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  than Boston, is serviced by a vast network of streetcars and subways ... in all the train stations make up a personal itinerary for you listing ... arriving there was no problem. Once there, we used a handy city map and made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  youngsters. A little blurry...but you can still see the kids' smiles :) This ... - you can check out more info about it here. We have a pretty intense ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Phone, I often accidentally opened his door. Fortunately there's a webcam ... visiting my room: "Your door is so ANALOG(UE)!" Chris wrote up a more ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our beloved river is frozen over. While this year that isn’t exactly the case

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  't attend as a college student, I was there for Livescribe, demoing and ... people recognized Chris and I there and we got the usual "Hey! Are you that ... not a nugget!" Look, I understand that you're not a nugget, but have

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  just go for it! Even just having a pencil and paper is perfectly enough for starting out. However, if you want a full painting starter kit, I ... is fine if these are not very affordable. I used a cheap, kid

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It ... . Please feel free to post any questions about this! You can also look up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013