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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  primary reason is that I enjoy the feeling of spontaneity in a day. I enjoy ... . Lodish: "Biology IS History." (he was trying to tie in how biology is a ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to ... calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... could even be your birthday today, in which case HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  Truth is ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  of the winning team’s members were legally documented in the United States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which is a temporary designation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  ’t allow personal wheels in classrooms. Fortunately, my unicycle is only a ... year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever ... CPW where I will actually be a juggling homeless person in The Guy Who

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  best place for me is a jack of all trades, dabbling in meche and in ... sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later ... from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  , Becky did find a random piece of metal in her food...yikes. But Becky ... Stuart, who, aside from having a great name, works for MITMedical and is ... is a pretty vague description. =) Seriously though, you can't get too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  up. Then I remember I have a lot of idiots to prove wrong” (Stanley ... “opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like ... against that wall and take a nap, which is me all the time, but “people

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a ... : “Technically, the glass is always full.” -- a casual wardrobe. This is optional ... shirts! -- a formal suit, for job interviews and Career Fair -- documents

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Arial's R has a diagonal leg. That means that this sign's body text is in ... is in [annotation note='A friend points out that maybe this is actually ... Papyrus. This font pair is so notorious it's appeared in Undertale, and a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  to have cultured fun (and proves that not every MIT class is a ... .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... a lot of effort. In general, problem sets take me 8+ hours, with a max

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  chocolate confiscated. Settle in for a drive home with Sam's Mom, eat some ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... zucchini frittata" or "my son's mouthpiece is stuck in his trumpet" or "what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... heard of fanfiction. In a way, it is fanfiction, but there are constraints ... sure about it. But she is actually growing up in a college town, fair

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  with a B-! And since freshman year is pass/no record, I was in paradise ... of class a week... so since the deadline for our project is coming up ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... who is now on sabbatical. A different professor approved the UROP in the ... for a minor in this one, which is a new development, with five

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT ... Bosh '86, PhD '94 - MIT Lecturer, part of a team in Arizona that ... . Read more about Person and Bosh in Q&A: Catching Pluto's shadow | MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  violence. Despite being in AO3, this is a standalone novel. The description ... , then SpecGram is a treat. The self-described "journal in satirical ... acted, which is a shame, really, since MTA's production breathed an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders ... plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get ... institutional authority, and on eating yummy food. I've met a lot of the most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... roots in [annotation note="Vietnam, Iran, Mexico, Russia, China, and ... ="366"] lunch at Orinoco in September[/caption] Even though Harvard is so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020