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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  it does make me feel better for a little bit. As I mentioned in an ... . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  that it’s difficult for public officials to know how to act toward a ... , as they have promised to do repeatedly, but how much easier is it to ... That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  my Senior Spring semester. As cliche as it sounds, time really does ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... think it's important to let the people in your life know that you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  Common Ice skating at Frog Pond (in a few months) Sam does his best ... - J.P. Licks Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  course, this is how it always starts. Unfortunate that classes started on ... (even though my wires were far too long and really messy) but when it came ... first checkoff assignment was to explain how it all worked. There was some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  's Worcester. I'm going to teach you how to pronounce it now, you ready? Pretend ... actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is to just say it rhymes with "data." How do you pronounce "data?" That

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  . It wasn't mandatory. But then I thought about how the entire point of ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer said that the ending of a story defines what it is about. And I haven

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  basketball confusing (it is still, to this day). How are you supposed to know ... . "You should get out more. How is it possible that you never need to ... Seattle in mid-2022. We love it here. Yes, it rains a lot, but it does not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  choose to find the time, even if it’s at midnight. Some of them are long ... From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep ... ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  the world slowly shifts off my shoulders. It gets better—it really does ... 'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to ... midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  . It really does happen. Sometimes, you have a stressful p-set on our ... , religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in ... exams and potentially life-altering decisions like declaring a major, it’s

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the ... end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ephemeral, but add it up — three times a day, 365 days a year, how many years ... our club name. But we love the feel of 'mince.' It’s an action that ... about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  just how little MIT has changed, both with regard to its charming aspects ... effects: not only how it decimates women in academia, but how it negatively ... discussion regarding the play itself and how it was made and how Ms. De Cari

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  foot (the American way of travel - look at how much Americans jog!) the ... this one has Facebook on it. :) 0. Just a taste of the festivities ... ! There were SO MANY of these sing-a-long thingies. Be happy I didn't put up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston ... Central Square. It's not as good as the actual Sapporo Ramen at Porter, (or so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  6.001 seems to be unique in just how it manages to pull it off ... invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn ... 've heretofore encountered, even if it does require you to go out and find bread ... see Brokeback Mountain last night, and it was really one of the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... gown had magnets on it. Michael adds, "I'm not sure why it does that." I ... for the geek factor, but it does really change the silhouette of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005