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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  better, and on and on. To answer these kinds of questions, you first have ... ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... , and when one is twelve to fifteen, might even seem horribly inane or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  , at which point we all piled into the elevator and proceeded to cheer on ... pretty.) A big part of orgo is trying to synthesize molecules using a ... neither of these categories, I put off of grading 5.112 problem sets (which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... of breaking recipes down into simpler steps to make it seem a little ... I'm cooking works a lot better than trying to do things from a

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

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  right or wrong answers is more blurred, so it felt more natural to ... due to it being a much larger class, which is compounded by our virtual ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  (or post it on the MIT 2012 Facebook group). Please include names of ... are holding "Brining Down the House," the novel on which the movie is ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  is one of the most accessible operas (The Arts Scholars went to see ... ." Why today?  Today is Friday: the most glorious day of the week. I woke ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  of Ancient Greece, which is my [annotation note= "CI-H/CI-M classes ... 's not like knowing this will matter to me for the rest of my life. But on ... context. I thought of Madeleine Miller’s Song of Achilles, which is about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  organization and student-run activities, which is probably for the better, seeing ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though ... It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... you had to be there. Russ may have also increased his chances of getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  is a hot breakfast ready before the residents of the house go off to an ... a good breakfast to start the day. I guess this is my way of carrying ... fraternity on campus, but without the ties of sisterhood that bind the women I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  --for better or for worse--kind of a defining experience of my time at MIT. So ... popsicles). If you ever feel down or lonely, just run over to the side of the ... . Maybe it was the other 26 miles of running, or maybe it was my desire to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a ... to elicit enlightening information about you, or what sorts of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  to feel like, or if this is far outside the scope of what I'm prepared ... on writing a way to calculate the kernel or whatever of a pixel. I show ... to watch my perspective on each of these classes shift as time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  turned out even better! To make sure she wasn't confused for a gypsy or ... thing I love about MIT is that 90% of the student body has no idea how to ... DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her ... on its own), and the Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack is my go-to for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  just take a ceiling tile down at Random instead of having to lie on your ... , oreos, various flavors of ganache, or even more chocolate? Do you want to ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself ... had to worry about a lot of things I didn't have to worry about while I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you ... room). Now get off my back, Mom. Uh, I mean.. now on to our regularly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Assembly. All of which are time sinks, the first one measuring up to nearly ... drop classes or not is never a good idea, but I am happy to constantly be ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023