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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem ... . LeaderShape takes place at an off-campus retreat site in southern

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right ... the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... room last year, that my walls were papered entirely in post-it notes ... pinned right in front of my workstation just in case I forget trivialities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my biggest failures, though, was in making friends - and now, looking back on ... thoughts about making friends at college. Don't It was sometime in the middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  beans and tomatillos in there. The reason this is all on my mind is ... international development.  It's amazing how things change. At this point in the summer, I've realized I have less than 5 weeks left in my internship, and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait ... takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control ... not several thousand feet in the air staring through a camera when I

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... with all the snow? Well, back in 1948, the Mayor of Boston had the same

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade ... just take up a little more "space" in your program): Then we did this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way ... hold a place in my heart for Colorado, and I will be comfortable where ... seventeen I spent in Colorado, the experiences I have had here and the people

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind ... tracks behind Simmons down Massachusetts Avenue, straight in front of MIT, then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for ... Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... attain a 98.9 grade point average before graduating second in his class at

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this ... name was printed in every paper and he was associated closely with MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  . When most people think of Shakespeare they imagine old English men in ... —written about a fifteenth-century civil war—in an alternate version of ... started out thinking of all the fun ways to play with setting it in a modern

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did ... in that class! I'll be glad when it's 12:01 PM on Thursday, at which ... time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning ... .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this ... lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  of buzzwords, like a pufferfish wrapped in chain mail and festooned ... unsurprising that MIT jumped aboard the cluetrain in this regard - to paraphrase ... that we'll be rolling out in the indefinite future, projects that will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  in Burton-Conner. In Burton-Conner we have kitchens, kitchens for ... her from giant fish fame. She also doesn't cook. In fact, I think she ... cooking (as much as she says it does). Teasing and taunting happens (all in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  that I haven't blogged in "forever." (The earlier back you look, the ... entries I planned but never wrote. Looking back in the archives, it seems ... speed on what's been going on in my life lately. The last you really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009