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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  embroidery kit, but was actually more of a cross-stitching kit. I still just ... into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... different things — construction and cross-stitch, algorithms and ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... and productive every time I cross something off :) I have a list for all ... day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  convince me of how easy it was to cross-register, since she had a pretty good ... cross-register (paying full MIT tuition, which you kind of have to do ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions ... and prayers are with you. We know that for some of you, it may be weeks ... helicopters carry their relatively miniscule payloads of water (relative to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  conform to the average pari-sneeze*** head tilt angle of 35.74 degrees, I ... .” Every sneeze is different. Degree of head or body tilt (before and during ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  accepted on campus. The trickiest part of cross-registration is arranging ... university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  holes of Boston architecture. We walk past a small park, and cross a ... have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010 ... classes, especially the class of 2011, are preparing to run the gauntlet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton ... of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below ... . J. P. Licks, the ice cream store of choice of many MIT bloggers, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it ... Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... Mehta, The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  particularly enjoys the integral of e to the xc (abbreviation for Cross Country ... Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... various capabilities of engineering leadership. For example, IR means

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  most pressing global challenge of our time. Solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system and engineering applications—as well as an understanding of human and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  culture at MIT. MIT has a lot of students who are creative, self ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of ... . When I'm not doing homework, I'm writing programs and taking pictures of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it ... ? Charcoal is the product of incomplete combustion of organic matter. This

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly like the idea of a "journal" -- a book just about what I do or feel every

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013