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• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. It is a place where individual creativity is cultivated and nurtured in a framework of values that ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  my right, when all of a sudden a big green sedan is cutting right in ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving ... and in a complete sentence, "dammit, this is a terrible way to die." My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  and a therapy in itself. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes < ... When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  and accepted in a way I never really was before. Is everyone at MIT ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  everyone in the entire office is reading thousands of applications and ... , going to a formal, and then maybe some stuff about playing in the snow. I ... FAR It's funny how much MIT helped me identify my identity. Like I did

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt Clayton would have cared that much, but as it happens, I'll need a nice

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  , which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun time filled with tons of ... live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... 's Army orders called. His father is retired from the Army and working as a ... is his name. ''It'll be a huge culture shock,'' Isaac said. So far

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  interactions (outside of my home) for a year, I'm not sure I know how to talk to ... to a small but significant sense of normalcy. Now, in honor of the ... , and spent time plotting out how to decorate my room (which may have a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... California. The first time in about a decade itself that it is changing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting ... through a phone camera. In that case, the Moiré pattern comes from the fact

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  ’m assuming that I’m right. The Water War is a yearly tradition in which we East ... around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance ... have. I like my work a lot. Coding in 6.005 has become really interesting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -earth.' " Yes, this is pretty much how Junot speaks during class. We then shifted ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... lab, which is due this week. 5.12 Organic Chemistry 3. Sphingosine, a ... sphingosine, a) draw in all of the hydrogen atoms. Label each sp3 carbon

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  there is not a lot of hassle with filling out timecards. All of this ... , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in ... Apollo Landings, the role of the human and automated systems in a new lunar

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  concerts and i’ve become a much better vocalist in the process, but… i ... when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... , Everything is Illuminated, is my second-favorite book, with a sparkling ... amazing. It's about a boy whose father died in 9/11, so it's a quite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005