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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  other news, one of my favorite people at MIT left this week for a semester ... ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I read Chin's book about five years ago, and was madly into it at the time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  'm guessing most of you are seniors, so you'd be looking at taking a gap year ... here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... the scene below (note the delicious Mike's Pastry at right): not your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  come see it! Come join us at the 2006 production of The Vagina Monologues ... , also available at the booth ------ Both my dorm and the Class of 2007 ... :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  apart from other schools. A short list of the topics we discussed at ... hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the ... moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  beneath a body of water, but at this point it's so routine that most ... So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the ... the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech ... at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... complicated sweets at all kinds of odd hours, sharing them with your neighbors

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... own tumblr blog, so maybe 1/4 of this is still content that I wrote at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... writing is concise and takes time, or at least a round of editing. But

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  COINCIDENCE he was going to climbing at the wall that night, and the rest of the ... circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  great. But quite a few of them have not, or at the very least have been ... So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... Hijacking of the Global Food Supply CMS Colloquium: Animation at the Beijing ... and professor of doctoral studies at the Animation School of Beijing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split ... light? I certainly did at the end of our tour because our zoologist was ... eternity staring at tarantulas. (It turned out that one of the other groups

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs.   ISEF went great ... with CMS/Civic classmate Rodrigo, who now runs product at Neighborly ... med school.   My flight was delayed due to ongoing construction at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017