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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... , feel a bit less homesick. Butterstick's human, Shannon, is a Residential

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two ... myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures ... photo is super interesting and contains a lot of historical elements

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the ... Painting in a written Composition discussing both the Merits and the Flaws

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  like Orlando in Korea... Where there is a Teddy Bear Museum! And ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  word, like the “and” in the third line. The letter width is a bit thinner ... consistently solve a Rubik’s cube in under forty seconds. The result is that I ... mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  , a man who for thirty years, parked cars in a garage. HIs nickname was ... Sloan's Back to the Classroom series in 2005, a little more than a year ... communication is the single most influential factor in how we work, from the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  check out the sky The light pollution is a bit horrendous here but in ... I will get a good grade in Simmons Hall, which is both normal to want ... for a swipe I may as well feel like I had a bougie meal. Bake in the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor-by-floor system based upon class rank and whether you've lived in a double or single ... tell this room is a lot more spacious - in the first photo, my bed is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  have a couple friends who are planning on 10B, and the lab my UROP is in ... the major is a lot less restrictive than the box I put myself in with 6 ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  confuse your audience. It is a 1998 Fender American Precision Deluxe, black ... finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas ... Jazz (Ben has a Fender Jazz bass). In addition to the standard split

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... is a record number. With so many excellent applicants this year, it ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  ; etc. In short, this is for you to get a sense of some seniors ... 'll profile a senior each day, each an amazing person in their own right. The ... Today begins a weeklong event at MIT called Senior Week. During

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  where you’ll be attending college. In reality, that is such a small part ... . What I get out of MIT is a product of the work I put in. Everything that ... attention was trained on fall of 2015. For me (like I think it is for a lot of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... deal with the faculty and fellow students a few at a time, in your

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is ... share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  very impressive and set up in a crowded, dark attic. This picture is more ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big ... you, even though my favorite meal in the world is chicken and waffles

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me ... Genius Grant which is a no-strings-attached grant spread out over 5 years ... taught by a Nobel Laureate. Freshman in 7.012 this term have the privelege

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014