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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  would allow kegs to be more safely and easily transported down stairs (I ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... Mechanical Engineers during their senior year. In this class, students learn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  , These are in-jokes which I would take too long for me to explain to you ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... Beethoven's 9th and Schubert's Winterreise, both of which I've sung in various

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were ... , Professor Patrick Winston. In my nomination of him, I wrote about the impact

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... get in before I graduate and the ultimate success, FIRST AUTHOR. As for

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... got locked into a narrow tunnel vision in which I only valued the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom ... increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... . Basically, I think we're going to have to sit in the back in 5.60 tomorrow so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... is right in the middle of Chinatown, so I've walked by it countless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  . In fact, I spent a good 20 minutes listening to some super ... picking something from the least brattiest band in the world. I settled on ... except for the counselors and it was the first time in my life that I felt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... minute -- did I mention F/A-18s? Those would be the Blue Angels, the ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... + tuna in red sauce = spaghettuna. I told my sister and her text message ... . Last week I pretty much lived in the Stata Center while taking ESD.950

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... also be in Walker, and of the four tests this is the one where I think I ... So, MIT is hard. I figured this out after I noticed that I’ve stayed

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  the “p-set zone,” it helps us think in different ways than we would in ... these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... research project in six weeks. I attended RSI myself in high school, and this ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn ... (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an ... . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010