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• Blog / Uncategorized

  a love letter to McCormick and thoughts on its renovation

  

  look a little different. When I step out of the Great Dome after classes, I’ll walk straight toward the Student Center instead of taking my ... of the information here is sourced from McCormick’s history page

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 28, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  , grey Favorite line of the T: The caves of the green line always makes me feel like I'm at Disneyland Song used as the opening credits of your movie: The Shins's cover of "We Will Become Silhouettes" Favorite

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

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... oscilloscope"][/annotation] At the end of 2.678, I have to return the Analog ... into getting electronics equipment of my own. In the very back of this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time ... , sister, best friend, chickens, poodle) in the temperate rainforest of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of weeks: the end of our first 8-week ICE course. ICE, or Integrated ... -nighters, the windowless basement computer lab, the return of 10.301 (fluid

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  : - Have one of my songs used in a major motion picture, or at least on The ... enough THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: - Ukrainian - Italian - Welsh THREE ... - Bryan Nance (only sometimes) THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: - Coffee

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the northern lights tonight from just north of Boston…" "A [Kp9] event ... supposed to be the highest visibility night this weekend of the solar flare ... . She agreed. After an hour of discussion, we took 10-10:30pm to rally the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  I am back in the office, did you miss me? :-) St. John was awesome, but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…

  

  I got an email today about the MacVicar Day event this week that showcases student research in our labs here on campus and in the field worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is, of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... decision to take a break. We took the time to decompress from the rush of MIT ... into the world of resumes and cover letters. Looking back, our main

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... again! Here at CTD, there are all sorts of ludicrous rules for the students and staff to follow (the title of this post being one - those

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... and that one video of the goat singing Taylor Swift ever existed (I know ... -inspiring bodily functions lingering in the back of my mind. Lingering... UNTIL NOW

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  yourself, does this dilute the challenge of the test? Well, no, because they ... , relation, and tidbit of information from the lectures onto one of your four ... . Later in the week, our housemasters Roe and Bronwyn, both of whom have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  less. So the classes happen over a shorter time frame. The scheduling of ... days of the week, for the whole month, like normal classes. One example ... the end of IAP. Instructors. There’s a lot of variety among people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  '10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... ." Rich's side of the room, opposite the feng shui tea shelf, contains his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to ... school and it is one of the best videos of all time. It is tangentially

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... International - like spreading LTI to Mexico), and one of the reasons I joined is ... vision. LTI seeks to introduce the concept of leadership to high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009