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• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  Donald's. This week sucks. Well, for everybody else it sucks, because they had ... breakfasts--every year, it's tradition that the seniors on Conner 2 make ... 't half-ass anything on Conner 2, unless it's every problem set I turned in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are only 8 weeks long and amazingly short compared to MIT's semesters. Many ... long travel trips for me. Besides, traveling in Europe during winter?

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... Lightning Talks, but it was very much a collaborative effort. The faculty took ... from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  affected in the Gulf Coast in our minds and in our hearts. It's an emotional ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... the damage and we realize that it will be months before any sense of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  ABOUT MAILING LIST CULTURE? Fb group III. It’s been long enough since ... lower it, because one of the worst symptoms of depression is in how enticing it is, and how it makes you want to stay, and i wanted to stay

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since ... . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read about it here and here) and has made appearances on the fingers of Tony

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to ... , considering i've been doing it for approximately two weeks! Parkour has been super fun and the two guys running it are very good teachers -- I love

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  comes from. And I don't know how to make it go away. This semester, I ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... it frustrates me that I still feel this way, but it's tiring being the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  finally learned how to code, despite resisting it stupidly during my time at ... parents used to drive me [annotation note="bless them, it’s not an easy ... child. The years after were filled with long, uncomfortable, sometimes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt ... sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it ... travelled around to extended family and my entire high school (it was a very ... childhood, and how a documentary I worked on for weeks was a total failure

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  , how does one go about getting their work shown publicly? For me it was ... described it as a "collection of paintings drawn from emotional histories ... summer before I came here, but the notion behind it has come to be a sort

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... be between 1) a C. elegans neurobiology lab that does screens for ... what they do and how they cause disease, and 3) a mouse neurobiology lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Тƒфll be learning about the structure of neurons, how we see, hear, move ... Journalism This class meets Tuesday nights, so I haven't had it yet. Once I do ... it's very convenient and nice. Our room has a great river view again

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  studying.    Green Building  How does one remember anything but the ... same time. It made me confront how much I had forgotten something that ... show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... had overcommitted myself, a little bit, and yet I went through with it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  GOLEAN cereal (don't knock it till you've tried it) and poured over it ... Break starts today! (Does anyone know if milk is okay past the Sell By ... city of angeles. Man, I love it when vacations line up with food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  had also come to hack. It was interesting how, even though the class of ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... rather than in a central server. And it's so much more than that, but we

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... comments. So go back and read the comments! It's like when your favorite ... 't actually had the opportunity to hear it, but I suppose I'll go check it out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  professional, deliberate, and sophisticated. It feels politically correct. But regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... better deal, averaging about $8.58 over its 570 meals, but both of those

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014