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• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  concern wasn't about the academic workload. "When I first decided to come ... . Winston links to. Enjoy! Always Moving Forward by Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  you think the entry sucks, keep your mouth shut. =P First let's start with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  birthday celebration. Alumni and community from all over are making trips to Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our ... months now to gather all the history and artifacts they can muster to make

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I ... fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... course of the semester, I finished it later and later. First it was done at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this ... built robots all day and used calculators a lot. I first genuinely got

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... received my first D, but I fulfilled enough graduation requirements for both ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  alumni of all ages who stopped in the kitchen first to see Jack." In 1991 ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me ... : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things ... , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to ... just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  lost so much to the pandemic: we did our first semester completely ... Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  ), so I vet very carefully: first, I only send requests to women and ... looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  first try using the blogger dataset to train StyleGAN-ADA, which was ... forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Saturday, November 11th, 2:33PM I’ve been struggling to blog lately. Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly because the positive things I want to write seem to take too much effort or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about ... requirements, etc. I knew nothing about graduate school. As I began to realize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year ... the arts. At one point, I mentioned I had always wanted to try

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020