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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.
-Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... -E-Cheese: addictively entertaining in the most kindergartenish, brain-frazzling sense of -
Blog / Academics & Research
More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…
! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great experiences I've enjoyed this semester. I'll tell you about one of them here -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Craziest of Weeks I had one.
formally welcome you admitted and delightful goobers to the Institute. Four years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking -
Blog / Life after MIT
These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?
Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I ... living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.
her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and -
Blog / How to Human
Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…
First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to -
Blog / Events
2024 ring premiere! amogus??
class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog ... Premiere and Ring Delivery, so of course I had to show up to Premiere and -
Blog / People & Identities
living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self
from some degree of "regression." there's something about going back to ... these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this -
Blog / Athletics
weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind
problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing ... first taste of fall. Yeah, I will admit I am freezing my butt off. But -
Blog / IAP
IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.
. IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of ... of the glorious unknown. The mystery bag was an opportunity to purchase -
Blog / MIT Life
25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.
FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?
Ave shortly after, traveling southwest at a trajectory of 42.6 degrees ... as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... front of him is a two-way mirror through which a nervous-looking aardvark -
Blog / Athletics
Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…
of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I ... have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I -
Blog / Life after MIT
Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.
than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of papers, mixing small volumes of colorless liquids in the lab -- the -
Blog / Academics & Research
The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.
longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was -
Blog / Challenges
A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.
anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns -
Blog / Events
The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…
semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot -
Blog / Personal Travel
Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT
After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of -
Blog / Uncategorized
Things in My MIT Household that just make sense
own complex work station set up for his work. Some of the technology ... 've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things