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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... else... my entry is looking for a new GRT (graduate resident tutor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  's expensive." I’ve changed my mind since then, and think it is a genuinely ... Simmons 2014 i3 video here. I live in C-Tower, and have pretty much a ... claims: "I'm not sure if wrapping the campus in a petroleum product is the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and ... that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  Today is Veteran's Day, a federal holiday honoring military veterans ... minister 50 years ago today. He is responsible for much of whatever good ... that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can ... sqrt(n) steps from the origin. But if there is a pretty gem in one ... difference between those who go far and those who do not is some people have a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  took on and how I approached them. As a person who learns best by ... down with me and explained to me, in a way that actually made sense, how ... that aren’t taught in class—like how to coordinate a complicated software

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  some lifted-from-the-admissions-brochure sentence about how MIT has a ... is, an engineer without interests in the wider world, working a cushy job at a big company. Of course, the truth is that MIT has so many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  how you handle 3 extracurriculars on top of a 4 class schedule: is it ... resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the ... informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... quotient? A: It could be. Or it could be that the potency of geekiness is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  is that there are laptops everywhere! Proof? I love having a ... backlit keyboard is also a nice feature (but then again, Macs are pretty ... . Everybody here I know that has one is a Mac fanboy and also uses another

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  2003. Why didn't we have a logo until 2003? And how was that logo made ... "Swiss Modern identity" mentioned here is a very striking, famous style of ... means that it ended some time in the 90s. But this is not a post about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  miles! 1. Stars and Stripes cow Boston is in the middle of a Cow Parade ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the ... 1747! 8. Haymarket Haymarket is a farmer's market held in downtown

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me ... dorm, Simmons Hall. Well, how could you not love Simmons?! They have a ... Anna's burritos I'd heard so much about, and LOVED them. A list of

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... MIT history! This is what it felt like:   As I write this, I’m riding a ... Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow talked it over with me today. His final words as we parted? "You've got a long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... reading on. Set is rather popular on my floor, Conner 3. My suite has a ... sets are there? (1080) What is the average number of sets in a 12-card

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  " -- although this one is a little more literal -- one of my first days working at ... MIT who rides BMX?" I forwarded this question to Adam, who is much ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  considering how bizzare the event is, but it was still a great success. 30 ... of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... reopen in a year and we needed as much attention as possible. Burton Conner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  'm always deciding between a great thing and an awesome thing. Oh, woe is me ... ourselves, so JudComm is there to make impartial decisions. I think a cat got ... . How sweet, it's like a blogger tradition now or something. IV

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about it isn't as much a chore as it is a reconfirmation of your bond with ... .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008