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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... Kresge's lobby where we talked about jazz for a bit. We sat together almost ... Juno soundtrack, to give you a feel for what they sound like. St

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a ... for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A ... project. Finding harmonies for songs involves a bit of grunt work. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there ... here's a look at what I'll be doing for the next three weeks: More

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  the documentation for that as well. Then I downloaded it, made a Twitter ... digitized a wiffle ball. CAD stands for Computer Aided Design, and basically ... 't easily take a class for, like "how to use MATLAB's differential equation

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about ... , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental ... It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  's artistic and culinary adventures at leftunattended.com. Looking for a little assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a ... friends, May your Thanksgiving holiday be a *smashing* success, filled with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a ... residents who left a fridge unplugged for the duration of the entire summer

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  that were clear around me were the oceans - and, for a moment, my mind ... 't even a good incentive to do it, then frankly, I don't know what is. For ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a ... for me. Having a desk is a game-changer, though—there's so much space to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there ... villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... . Once he successfully fights the illness, he emerges as almost a

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  't want to walk to places like [annotation note="i would die for a grilled ... campus for hours of dance practice every day. a bike would've been so worth ... a week for various things i was involved in, and a bike would've saved

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  spot for the summer, the friendly neighborhood Starbucks. I was in for a ... together at the table outside next to me and put on a concert for those ... a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  really easy for her to get what she needed." Such a need has been around ... A little over two weeks ago, MIT's news office released a statement ... Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... Clif bars today. Oops. 5) I got up at 9 today to buy groceries for a club event and also for the co-op (a cooking rotation, basically) on my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I ... dorm room, open my eyes for real, and take in the world. There's a lot ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half ... on it.   ...i'm having a great time though!   (for now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  graduation requirement), I'm taking 6.UAT, a preparation class for 6.UAP, the ... . Although, notably, one student intuited a possible explanation for the ... ) - ...I've been putting this off for a long, long time. 6.815 (Digital &

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  Oregon for an outdoor-sy family vacation. Anything else? I've run into a ... Manchester, TN for Bonnaroo, a 4-day music & arts festival. Think Woodstock ... working for Lockheed Martin as an engineer and project planner when i get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off ... about it. In a single day, I had a base coat up, went shopping for paint

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014