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• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  . food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there ... convey. all of this is love, but in different ways. there is a passion for ... hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  settling in for a day of studying but will generally end with a group going ... been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient ... and asks me if i have determined the correct final velocity for a dust ... i inevitably miss a deadline and become desynchronized. but for now, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me ... for the Superbowl, a charcuterie for...Galentine's Day? Palentine's Day

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  following is a crop of the syllabus we got for studio this semester. The ... simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art ... expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea ... Manifest Destiny for my blog.) Anyway, the fact that I've used a legless ... The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  newspaper and where can you turn for detailed information on a fund? How does ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth. Professor: Peter Temin format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week, one 1 hour

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  Boston runners, I've run (and paid for) a few other marathons, and I ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... a lot of charities for whom you can raise money to circumvent the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  went for a walk around downtown Boston. I hadn't talked to my Dad in ... theater district, he called. I had to balance the cup on a concrete post for ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  spotlight for himself? Comments, anyone? Anyway, he founded a multi ... MIT alums are known for many things, but i's not everyday that one wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to D-Entry for my senior year. I'm also a member (and former captain) of ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  , and then picks a subset of those to review for the final examination. As ... exam, there is less commitment for attending a lecture, and thus students ... concern for how much you will remember six months from now. It seems to be a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to ... this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in ... , the class would be flown to Istanbul for a week to present to the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a few meals so I ordered a large cheese pizza, a large grilled chicken ... I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  ;*#!$ with your head. Anyway, I don't really have time for a whole entry, but ... . Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for ... Hey friends! This post is a little unconventional and inspired ... creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through ... for something sweet. However, for such a quaint little bakery, there ... as fast as possible, enjoying the flavor for a second and moving on to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in ... twice a week for an hour in Dupont. If you know me in real life, you know ... prepared for whiplash as I blog about Ella in a corporate setting for summer

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... for many great reasons. For example, one of my favorite students spent a ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006