the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of ... and the holistic experience of students, especially undergraduates. S3
probably be higher if I felt capable of Actually Understanding Poetry, but I ... letters, and a list of all the books.
S: will reread again and again
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note ... "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose
top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death ... that must be paid for the passions of this earth
Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... of bloggers. This year,[annotation note="nice"]69[/annotation] people ... submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent
tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here
Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here.
Almost every course at MIT has
Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season.
From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught of violent offenses ranging from tents to snow, turning
appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The student activism of 1968-1969 — against the Vietnam War, against nuclear
of a success, but I gave it a shot.
There have been tons of articles ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with STEM maker culture (although I’ve had plenty of immersion with the arts
. The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous
Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App. Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted
This was supposed to be a happy post.
It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome
After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the
that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity.
This past weekend’s wind
it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its
I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... :
"MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?"
It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind
BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string.
String?
Looking up, I made my way past large equipment and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young
On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs