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• 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 self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... culture, you’re probably aware that the halls of our dorms are covered with ... decorate the dorm with the kinds of absurdities/obscenities that you’ll come

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• 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 ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... that reminds you of home. Your dorm is your new home for the next eight

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... principles of design: rhythm, scale, proportion. We watched the Eames Classic

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on ... -Cyberespionage -Deaths of Mathematicians -Cetacean Mechanics Stuff You Haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... , took all of the pictures of all of the things, and own so many variations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of labyrinthine catacombs along the banks of the Charles River. So we pipped across the pond to explore the secrets of the old colonies and whatnot. I must

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• 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 History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  , trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information, yet it was still difficult to make sense of each living group’s general ... thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... moosh made of it now blah. (Editor's note: my spell-checker just insisted ... into a study break of dubious productivity. And I... Gave people

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of ... applications comes even as the number of graduating high school seniors held

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... Jewish New Year and Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Pictures

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... who might otherwise never have seen it. I hope all of you found this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010