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• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I ... to October...) and building gliders for it. Running away from getting ... physics and decision making involved? I could definitely say that in many

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  begin. I work for a limestone company, and before you conjure up images ... miles) south of Brussels. On my first day, the Research and Development director gave a two-and-a-half hour lecture to explain my project objectives

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called ... travelled and displacement are not always equivalent amounts. Sure, if you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn about US and Canadian healthcare. (SEATTLE AND VANCOUVER RESIDENTS: did ... Re, and HERE!. Of course, pollhacking is not new, as demonstrated by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  joint titled "Tasty Burger" with Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor. (They're cool.) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are telling me I should double major in ... weekend. First and most importantly, I got nine hours of sleep last night

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... , because it could be the difference between making people upset and making ... MIT "bubble," meet new people and reflect on both MIT culture as a whole

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... 'm on have exploded with commentary, and there will be a survey and a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie's question, and as her answer probably differs from mine, she should feel free ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  Every year, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus comes to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... freshman year and I had an exam or something equally unskippable last year

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and ... EC and walked across the Harvard bridge at 9 am, the sun was already strong and I had to unzip my fall coat. The trees have finally changed for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our voyages into Boston, meandering past our usual destinations and toward the ... . Wait, it's free?! I'm getting one ASAP." And thus, it was decided that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent ... . Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, for their work on "Search Frictions ... markets, explaining why people who are looking for work and companies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  spent his time in prison practicing spirituality and magic. when i first ... lie when something is bad. You know, if you have a cold and someone says ... complaining about problems and being pessimistic about them can make them worse

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of ... historically significant and culturally stupendous event: my birthday. Today, I ... age", and am a third of the way along a reasonably optimistic life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  Chef, I’m dusting off the cookbooks and asking mom for advice. I was ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... fridgey?!” Apparently my family relies on vague onomatopoeia and unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... or potato-bean soup for the Mafia potluck at NH4, and Sam's Mom settled ... sauce and 45 minutes of frying later, I had forty-six nigh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and ... -naked, and get you out. 2. I wonder if acclaimed thespians Kelsey Grammer ... like, "Yeah, he's got these cool blades that spin around real fast, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  conferences, and hosted one conference for high schoolers. These are the ... crisis staff and logistical stuff. For this conference, I was able to vice ... ), and it was an interesting experience meeting these students and seeing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  's forehead-burning welcome speech, and stockpiled free sandwiches as if mankind ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... couch as a bed and a chair as a desk in the past 2 days is a reliable sign

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009