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• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly ... like support systems are a luxury you can indulge in if you have them ... constitutes a “good person”, but because i believe in my bones that chunks of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  cool in-universe? is he a serious character? the author is dead, so they ... hadestown is a tragedy. the narrator, hermes, tells you this in the ... compelling stories; in other words, a storyteller is a bullshit artist in the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  tuned in to her feelings, while he is a kid who frequently feels angsty or ... : Apocalypse came in the form of a deadly pandemic, and now the world is reduced ... Dreams, and his encounters with people in the waking world. It is a wild

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20 ... stop drawing free body diagrams; this is an exercise in introspection. No ... memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  post is by necessity a work in progress, so I'll be adding to the list ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  ) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public ... microstructure. She has authored numerous articles on initial public offerings in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  he played The Fonz in Happy Days). 20.441 is probably my favorite class ... things like that). So basically, this is a class on learning... HOW TO MAKE ... . And also, in case you missed it last time - I'm doing a Q&A video

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... the technical shapes them. The internet, in particular, is an artifact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  there’s a GRT in it with a lot of Canadian pride). The building is very ... or relationships, because in a community, one is not necessarily close ... life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  you’ve just gotta invest in a good bowl or go to china because 💀 this ... good pizza. pizza has a low ceiling imo in terms of flavour so this is ... FLAVORFUL. silky kitchen is sulking in the kitchen right now. also a great

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  room has a river view which is pretty, and it gets lots of sunlight in ... room is just a way for us to be creative every once in a while," said ... on my floor, Burton 1, all decorated in such a way that creates a place

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

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  . One of the reasons I took a break last semester is that I felt like I ... . Sorry person-who-will-not-be-named-here, not everyone’s brain is a robotic ... choices I’ve made in a long time. Something about being surrounded by people

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  MIT ignores them in its curriculum. And IAP is a wonderful time to keep ... decide who truly is the greatest lover of pancakes. Last Wednesday, a group ... livetweeting the contest and documenting every stack with a photo.      They

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  semester, is no doubt a requisite to Course 4. While I love having my little home away from home away from home, it is pretty isolating in a way. I ... case, reviews (as you will see...), etc. Apparently, there is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  want to be a published fiction author. Someday, once everything is paid ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a ... talking in Spanish anyway. She was a lost tourist who wanted to get to the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  , informatics, and biology. In each country there's a selection process to try to ... , then a senior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, scored 34 out ... International Math Olympiad team in 1974, and what freshman class does this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT ... begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just ... , not even the staff. The plane was gone. I sat over in a booth in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017