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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  think I can top Ben's tales of nerd love with an incident that took place ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times ... . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... I can enroll in IAP classes and participate in research, I cannot ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... : One of the Literature department's concentration advisors I've been a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  and take pictures of what lies in between on my way back home. I am also ... I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across ... has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  ="aligncenter" width="400"] every piece of red text is something I am doing later than I ... [/caption] I'm falling behind in this fall semester, and running hard to try and ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People ... staves made of PVC pipe covered in foam, which is covered in duct tape ... so fast that I could barely keep them in the picture. Dan '08 presses

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft. I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . If I choose to stay in this dorm, can I keep the same room?" The answer ... " field of the comments won't make it visible to everyone else), I can hash ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  following the laws of physics, not the laws of, "I saw number 28 in a dream ... , I think most of the issues I've encountered this year, as they relate ... weird coupling, I know. When I was in business school I had an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  in my life. After all, who really cares?   3. "I've met a lot of ... mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen and jot everything down. I just had one of these marathon brain

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  assignment. In general, I find that professors are understanding of the ... can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself getting smarter by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then, in unison, “Hi Madeline.” One of the boys kneeled. “We actually have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ... . Had I not, I would have been disappointed in the final outcome of ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  tastiest dishes you can make for the amount of effort you put in. All it ... was lazy and used store-bought stuff this time. I had to open a can of ... I enjoy productivity that's tangible, so cooking is one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  studying, because most korean parents can be... In retrospect, I feel like ... . (I will say that I like the subject matter more than that of 5.112 - Principles of Chemical Science, which I took last semester.) But my professor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  's to use, but is big enough that I could have a lot of people over in it ... effect on what kind of socializing can occur in them. In BC, the floor ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  -esque summer subsisting on mostly gummy worms in Taipei Cami M. ’23 of ... architect of a venerable One Direction fanblog full of gifs and drama (i ... card game enthusiast who can recite an unbelievable 7 digits of Pi Alex

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019