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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  stuff. As its number may imply, it's the first Mechanical Engineering ... . Basically 2.001 teaches you the stuff you need to know to figure out that ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... . Beethoven wrote only one opera and it was called "Fidelio." 3. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  to me by my mom’s boss’s wife when we first moved to Chicago 16 years ... right wall. This door leads to 335s, the room I lived in during my first ... Massachusetts Avenue, joined at the basement, the first floor, the third floor

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too. In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  lies more in the decision to write in German in the first place. By ... difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  pressure on myself to get things right the first time and i get frustrated ... whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes because that’s when my laundry is supposed to be done and just continuously

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Institute. But then I went back to Nigeria for the summer, and for the first ... sixteen pictures that chronicled our first-year adventures. Needless to say ... the first time, we had lots of moments where I’d be heading to my room

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ... corridors and staircases move I used to have to take the 3rd floor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  delightful experience. I decided a good first step to get back into actually ... 't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... "]Lifting Heavy Things.[/annotation] That was my first foray into lifting, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... Burton Conner - rip Senior House) to paint murals on the dormitory walls

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... assignments last Friday, and I am so happy to officially say that my friend ... to be her host prior to Friday, most people were matched by admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  clear skies, I decided to finally touch some grass for the first time in ... —or shall I say Autumn?—is the first season I learned to live alone in ... This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... you ever wanted to know what someone was thinking when they met you? Well, now you will. First and foremost, there’s excitement. I’ve had the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my first semester at MIT is ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... to ask you. What do I mean by “meaning”? Do I mean to ask what the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  first out of a long list of things that I want to accomplish during this ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... , Course VII '76, who went to MIT when West Campus went only as far as Mac

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009