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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... way from back in November!) and I definitely wrote some other entries in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... before me, both in this country and in mine, the difference being that the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning, my changes in perception of various aspects of life, living in an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  its capacity, 18. The driver sat us in the back, and fit more people ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  in her last post as an undergrad, "Take your living group selection seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in the summer in case you get stuck there, but consider Dorm Rush (REX

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... excellent when you just don't want to go outside in the winter, but you also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS North's Footloose this week. He rocked in the show (with some crazy solos ... his makeup off and ramble about how things were at PHS theatre back in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology ... Architecture and Islamic Cultures Statistical Methods in Economics Can you match

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  I’m also interested in math-related things that aren’t directly math ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”, which I think is way more reasonable. In Tagalog, mathematics is sipnayan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area, students gathered to strike. In Boston, people gathered at City Hall Plaza ... . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we're still heads-down reading applications and meeting in committee. No final ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  products). We (my mom and I) arrived in Shanghai last night. Today (June 3rd ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing this year, one that I wrote about it in the “我没去过北京/I Have Never Been to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... this amazing makeover on our product in 20 short days. We went from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  essay was easy—in fact, fulfilling—but true storytelling blocked me like no other. In high school I became interested instead in poetry; not ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014