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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  to visit improv shows and eat hot pot. For our second to last day, we ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  changed every round. All I needed to do was report our team’s answers for ... for my high school, where most students preferred to participate in mock ... “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  . Jackson was persuaded by the brothers to stay on to cook breakfast for ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me ... : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  throw you for a loop, but it’s ok to make mistakes. If we didn’t make ... Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It ... a News Editor for our campus newspaper, The Tech. For me, that means

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... more enough to convince me that MIT really was different. Given that our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  for it to come out on DVD, that is, unless you just did something really ... to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... someone you see everyday and have been introduced to on numerous occasions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking ... flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it looks like it has transitioned to rain =( Last week, I finally busted out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list ... IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... freshman dinner... We had to cook for about 30 people, so we started with a ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the Apple

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I ... -dimensional beings" for another day. P.S. If you want to learn more about ... [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... representative of reality. Please excuse my photo stitching.   From left to ... pass/no record. He intends to declare Course 4 (Architecture) as his

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  DIAGRAMS??   Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing ... working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  snowflakes on our tongues. except for daniel, because apparently he tried to do ... and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022