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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  first African-American to lead Mission Control. [Listen to an interview ... 's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a ... special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  first syllable. This brings us to our next example, Coeli's "Magkaibigan ... dalawa? The first word, magkaibigan "to be friends", has primary stress on ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  the first place. I try to make up for my lack of knowledge with ... whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  was lunch time. We were promised $10, but first we had to demo the pen ... , started to worry when, after the first two spins, we'd given away two pens ... commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  had been introduced to the Asymptones for the first time via our ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of ... extremely quickly. Here is a list of blog posts I meant to finish, to no

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  experience my first DTYD this April!! Shirts/Shirt Names: The easiest way to ... manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything is going to hell. [caption id="attachment_51263" align

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  ? Lillian: Well, why did you choose to work here in the first place? CJ: That ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I brought nice shoes but there was no way I was going to wear them all day, so ... issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... furniture, we eventually solved our first cube together. Yippee! It wasn’t as

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last ... community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching the Monologues, because I think it's also the first year that I know so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening ... the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under ... . I wasn't going to blog tonight, actually; earlier this week, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  you can have a "first post" war. And like I said, I do reply to all the ... IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  gross. First, I need to catch a bus, which stops across the street from my ... support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  i already feel like an alum visiting mit, when i come to meetings, when i eat dinners with people, when i go to square dancing every week ... 's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... either never actively chose to follow or chose and then forgot the choice ... intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021