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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... through the form of already begun works. There’s something to be said here ... in what has become a hunkering zombie of virgin words. The other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most people refer to it – “The-one-with-the-guns-instead-of-swords” or “The-one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , penciling in notes between the lines, and the two hours of rehearsal fly by ... buildings. Life is looking up. The best part about summer is, of course, that ... school year, I spend a lot of time completing assignments in the evenings

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight,” hosted by the MIT Office of Digital Learning, Prof Mahajan used several

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  one of the recipients of the 2006 Hometown Hero awards. The awards are presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor individuals in the community who have had an uncommon impact on the lives of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  explains the lack of...anything...in her spotify wrapped. The rest of us ... rather, “pov:indie”) was the top genre among bloggers.  Most of my ... 've listened to a lot of the "Sad Girl Starter Pack" playlist made by spotify

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid camera that more-than-kind-of looks like a droid from The Clone Wars, of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... supermarket down the street. Granola bar of unknown provenance. 12:30 PM ... limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the only person keeping this world in balance.  He's kind of like the Avatar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ). One of the reporters, Andrei, told me (in Russian), &ldquo ... out of touch with American life that I didn’t even remember the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale ... ! Students, educators, and other segments of the MIT community crowded room

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... MIT, from the University of Michigan to the University of Texas to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an ... Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021