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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  forward to this year, and a small chance for reflection. This, of course ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a recent New York Times article as well: Bras says sensor technologies for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  . For good measure, I'll throw in links to the arts@MIT - Dance site as well as MIT DanceTroupe. Tomorrow, I head to New York City for three ... They say, "You snooze, you lose" -- Kevin and Daniel beat me to two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  in December for me to wear shorts three days in a row, and when the ... , old enough that I no longer have to fax papers home for parent ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... sailing, suffered two blows to the head from a wayward mast, pretended to ... a year's worth of collected bubble wrap for 10 minutes, consumed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... the bellows to the camera body, readying it for its first (and hopefully ... to use this camera for portrait photography (especially after seeing

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  , exactly, is a phoneme? There's substance to this question. For example, when ... pairs to play with. For example, [annotation note="All song links go to ... to one's feelings. Even if I act boyishly My heart still beats for you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much ... have been passed down from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the posters. it's also right next to the lounge, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  way into the lobby, pausing for a moment to catch my breath, a puddle ... upperclassman at a lunchtime barbecue. I apologized to her for not talking much ... lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it ... the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... ), when I got this e-mail from Mitra. From: Mitra Longshoreman To: All of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  film. Open to: the general public Sponsor(s): Center for Bilingual ... Clinic for Students! WHEN? Monday (THIS WEEK!), 12/5, 11:30-2:00pm WHERE ... and can address ANY potential route of virus transmission. For poster

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Prize "for extraordinary service to children." I was equally surprised to ... . After an introduction that included a thank-you to Rafael Reif for ... memory (not to mention he was 110% prepared for the rehearsal). But it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire ... coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  ] speak for themselves. An awesome way to end the semester. Outside NALGIS ... Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive ... given himself the nickname "el Che", sent the following to the dorm email

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  against a field of dozens for the chance to qualify for the Championship ... I said then, ...FIRST (which stands for For Inspiration and ... applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT professors argue for their favorite Jewish delicacy – either Latke or ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  then use to test individual fly neurons, and design algorithms for ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005