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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded ... the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... field extensions to love and all relationships. The whiteboard by my door

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls ... out in order to pass inspection and avoid these fines. Meanwhile, in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... Committee. I'm pleased to say that they also have some pretty good taste: Such class! But back to the ring. More than anything, it's proof that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... into your 'camera'. To save computation, you cast 'light rays' in reverse ... -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  even to explain, but I distinctly remember my first week real week here I ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused ... , then you are who I'm talking to right now. There's just one thing you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  : blog entry for wednesday? Date: July 20, 2007 1:08:15 PM EDT To: Matt McGann Hey Matt, There's an awesome blog entry just waiting to happen, but I'll be away on vacation and unable to post it. I also don't have time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... explanation. Let me try again. First, here are some excerpts from the article ... , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... job you can get at MIT; you get paid $9 an hour to play Snood, press the ... coloring Levi's hair behind desk. So, when I walked into the dorm, the first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  while reading this blog, this isn't entirely true, and I just want to make ... research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their pages and thinking about going to school there. I miss the potential

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been ... moved all the way across the country, from Southern California to the DC area, to live with my five friends. We moved not for any job

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  some things I hope to accomplish the first year of this new decade of my ... twenty years old. Wow. So weathered, so wise.  I’m heading back to Boston ... cacti with arms, pronounced ‘sah-WAH-row.’ Thanks for coming to my desert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy ... packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha ... must work effectively to realize this task, so students also learn about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... ] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... alpha prototype. The large teams must work effectively to realize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016