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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the ... . Now I must admit by the end of the evening, I did have a slight crick in ... I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , and I collapse in a couch at a lounge. This was, in fact, how their quad ... with my friends from MIT every once in a while, and the sentiment is ... "]Splash,[/annotation] which is a whole blog post in itself. Last Wednesday, the day before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me ... ! The flat part is actually a lake, but it's all covered in the winter ... Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  -depth in another entry, but the point is that it was a critical year, because ... digressions), I spent a year abroad as an exchange student in Taiwan the year ... with something. How about that. I'll probably major in Urban Planning

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  place. Especially because there's no way you can know how a school will ... majors (this post is long overdue, I know). In the mean time, if you can ... early action decisions. SIX DAYS! Six days! Man, that's a short time. When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  day, he participated in a panel discussion with MIT professors John ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  too. Because I often forget just how beautiful it is. And yet a place ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... . I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  how I should've done things differently. I guess I’m not alone in this ... !" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though.   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with ... already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the ... Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  a greater understanding of how changes in computational power have ... . However, an MIT convention that spans the two is the HASS concentration, a ... rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play ... .186 Mobile Autonomous Laboratory (Maslab) (as a TA): This is an advanced

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big ... in a circle. We bought balloons, we bought beer and hard lemonade, we ... MIT.” “We are?! Why is that?” “Because MIT is having a party and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  . In my homeland, snow is only a myth. My fanatical, creepy ... number of Sonic Youth albums in my music collection is a little ridiculous ... My name is Keri Garel, and nothing else in my bio is true anymore

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005