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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A ... in the Fmaj7 and Bhalf-dim7 chords. Every good theorician knows that in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  different high-tech and economic development projects in Buenos Aires, including the MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop actor in a one-woman all ... , obviously) completed PhD in finance at Stanford, research associate at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  , wrote. Interestingly, Abrams is directing Mission: Impossible 3, in which ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and Cognition," known around MIT as Course 6-9. In this post, I'll describe my ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept ... 'd paint you a walk along the river, in this nimbly crafted post; I'd tell you how I love this place, about its gentle paradise, all in prose that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who died 1 week ago :(']buzzing in[/annotation] as soon as they know the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel: Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this exact same place in this exact same moment feeling exactly whatever it is ... remind you to listen to the world around you. To the rhythm in your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  student in the Aerospace Controls Lab. He was the electrical systems lead of ... seat electric race cars. Over six days, in three countries, we met with ... -built formula cars in the world. FSAE is an international, collegiate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel   In Invincible Iron Man #7, it was also revealed that she lives in the same dorm I lived in freshman year, Simmons Hall. There, she

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  most of these t-shirt bearing tech companies in this reality. Instead, I ... if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7 ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6.042, or in regular-speak: "Mathematics for Computer Science". It. Is. SUPER ... math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014