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• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year might usually have. There's still something about the turn of the year and the impending end of the semester, though, that demands one gently

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed ... first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my ... , grabbing dinner as a team, and putting egregious amounts of stage makeup on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as trees flow endlessly past the window, of loneliness and stagnancy and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which ... 's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... I reached the Huntington Street entrance of the MFA that afternoon

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their embryonic guts over the creamy, supple blankness of winter vacation. This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... . This concept of thinking is mind-boggling academically, but it is the main support of art. What's the answer? There isn't one. Don't worry. If

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... next fall. Regardless of whether you applied early, most of you should be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  , where I long to be... Okay I'm done now. I've taken way too many photos of ... second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the twinkling lights of the Prudential tower accompanied me into the late hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... Paris exploring the history and culture of the city and speaking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 ... horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent of a "normal" class. perhaps that deserves another blog post later

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021