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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth ... busy times of the year, like summer break. Here was my reading list for ... Safran Foer The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol ... presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue ... -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... ’t wait to get out of here.” I couldn’t have imagined all the changes that ... caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own ... had gone through somewhat of a transformation lately, with the likes of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... within a taped square on the other side of the gym. I don’t suppose

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various ... my students experience the same feelings of inspiration and confidence ... . Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised when I was occasionally out of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  time here thus far. So far on the blogs, I have written about two of them ... to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I ... Portuguese! I am really proud of the work here, and I hope you find it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  students. Some of these questions have come from citizens of the countries ... at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... ; especially through the work of Lincoln Lab, we are engaged every day in keeping

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up-the ... Guitar Sidekick), you feel the slow, grinding rotation of the earth tugging

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature ... imagine.  The Hobby Shop (one of the first MakerSpaces on campus) just

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east parallel of East Campus, called Tetazoo after the infamous James E. Tetazoo ... the coolest things about Tetazoo is the presence of cats. Here on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  aspects of communication. The final report, some 33+ pages worth, is due ... changes to the GIRs (General Institute Requirements). These are the sorts of ... that the current structure of required/core classes leaves much to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My ... . I'm an official MIT freshman now, a proud member of the Class of 2011 - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  matches my artistic outlet of choice--sewing! My now most famous work: the ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... 'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would. The first or second day of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the ... my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice president of the entire Dormitory Council, which are certainly not small

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  ! After the weekend, when you finally stop running around to all of the ... of the things on the list above, or maybe the one with the most ... * looking forward to what you're going to come up with through the magic of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  one of the most important and useful resources we've got in the biking ... of the MIT ecosystem. [annotation note="I think there is something ... absolutely recommend! [/annotation] All that being said, I know many of the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then, in unison, “Hi Madeline.” One of the boys kneeled. “We actually have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  textagons!!). So anyways, I kind-of sort-of dropped my camera down the ... throughout the entire weekend at CPW, I took all of, like, fifteen pictures. Yup, kind of pathetic; cue the well-founded exclamations of "WHAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010