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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most innovative and progressive universities in the world and I always have loved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• 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…

  

  Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70, via Slice of MIT, reprinted with Prof. Winston ... Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of ... were the last solar eclipse of the century. Now priorities are such that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... nourished by the university."]Aulus.[/annotation] (Me: "Mom, if you were my ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... stations connect to malls, each of which seems to connect to five more. My

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘ ... a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for ... without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... every hour of the weekend, causing even the most fervent Course 8

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  program associated with the University of Grenoble. It sounds really fun ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... heavy. I wanted to post something lighter before I go into all of that

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes learning from nature

  

  goes even beyond the sort of universal experiences we have as a race; it ... triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings ... 's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can't promise you an amusing survey, I can provide you an account of WHY we are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  students from the University of Virginia, made the journey down to Agra to ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  walked through Xiamen University, which was beautiful. Took lots of ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... the fourth episode of My Girl (one of the best asian dramas out there, w ... happened: I ended up watching 2.5 episodes of My Girl with my friends until

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009