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• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... looked up at the dome. The inscriptions at its base. The ten pillars. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  , we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think ... at how self conscious bloggers are of their Spotify Wrapped data. I ... : cynical angst, angry at the world angst, coming of age angst. Feel free to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  wants, what they are afraid of, while at the same time sharing with them ... week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  single one of the classes I have taken so far at MIT - whether it's organic ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 're used pretty heavily, at least judging by the percentage of machines which ... whatnot. Grad school update: As of this evening, I have interviews at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  make a living out of making rhymes.   Laughed at bad ... Joseph Ducreux ones, because at one point of my life, I sort of wrote like ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  , that's pretty much the concept behind much of the learning at MIT: Mens ... ' pastime here at MIT.So if you were never a big fan of science before, you ... crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... ARTalk lets us share these more fun-filled moments with the rest of you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G iPhone at opening his door every single time. Other things it beats Chris

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  with the Dean of Engineering at UNZA, and we have planned on meeting our ... during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... , and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007