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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  to me, which is my usual style. I definitely couldn't keep this up all ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , and how each cover of Oprah is better than the previous one and this ... responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... last year of blogging the year I started thinking about applying to MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  myself is that I need to have some sort of mission or quest that defines my ... 'm working on right now is attempting to tackle the large task of modelling ... because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  to how loud the sound is. This completely changes the set of effects ... of the sound. The organ is off to the side of the auditorium, at the ... description of the composer. It is so. cool. to look over a study sheet and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college student to the structure of regular adult life? one answer is to avoid

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  values. For better or worse, it’s a simple fact that the world is more ... is to me.   (P.S. I wrote this on the plane initially, but we ... least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  or may not be carrying. I want 15 HOURS of work to amount to something ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to ... The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  . Raffle of Guitar Hero An aside, if you will: Guitar Hero is one of the ... the people who admitted you to college, rock out on stage, and then bid ... to see Tim the Beaver crowd surf and listen to Marilee on the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is ... was kind of mean.) Edited to add: Junot Diaz on Charlie Rose! ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which ... people at a club, and I saw another 20 or so on my 5 AM flight back to ... got better on Friday. we went to a beachside brewery, battled some waves

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... , I took 5.111, which is (re)Introduction to Chemistry. The semester ... hack of 2013! A great way to start, after last year's concluding one on

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside ... happens Please note that No-Shave-November is similar to, but distinct from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  channel to play Sting's 'The Last Ship', which is sort of our de facto hall song. The second one is "annoying 1e bot", which is programmed to say all of the stupid memes we like to yell in lounges. The best feature is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  Power of All Day 3: Challenging What Is, Looking to What Could Be Day 4 ... , and I couldn't have picked a better place to celebrate my birthday or ... Shape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... , and it is both an ode to the nostalgia of that first year of back and ... I sit on the Felipe’s rooftop, or on the docks of the Esplanade, or in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025