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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  Restore Sanity and/or Fear, hosted by none other than Jon Stewart and ... , was the chance to go home and see my family, including my sister’s cat, Sheesha: And this is proof positive why I would rather have a cat than a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  -established, widely-accepted, and straightforward procedures, which makes me all the ... through each and every one of my actions over and over and over again. I ... days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  chapel, a dean, and a choir. According to Anglican tradition, there should be prayers every evening, and the choir gives it voice (hence, evensong ... everyone else sings Sunday and at least one other day. A good choir is a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as ... road bike instead.  Only occasionally do I glance to the side and notice ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023