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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  get the cart up into the office, and I reckoned it'd be best to avoid ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  and getting to witness the vibrant art, poetry, and theater scenes of ... subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and ... 'm referencing this interview with Kanye West by BigBoyTV. In response to Big Boy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get ... post! So I went to snatch my friend, Caleb M. '27 's camera, and here are ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  about my UROPs this summer and all the time I get to spend with my friends ... I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely ... ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by yourself, so I decided to try out something new tonight while making dinner

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The ... ?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any missing materials sent to us. But at this point, we're only reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... ’ve sent 150+ emails and made 20+ calls related to housing, because I decided not to take company housing for some reason. When I landed last weekend

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past ... streaks to feel my immune system start throwing it's hands up and shut down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  to get kids interested science by working on fun projects.   Can ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was ... guess it's called a "Quiz," but they just call it that to lure us into a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  noticing you went to MIT undergrad to a lady at a coat check. So getting your ... The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... 'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006