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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and ... to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair*, or tie your shoes. So every time one of the aforementioned tasks has to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... time. But that leads me to the next part of this story. 2. "There is ... Frost to Billy Collins' coming-of-age poem "On Turning Ten" to childhood

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT ... all the material from recitation or from the online video lectures on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  've got a lot of work to do on their name Bryan: not quite hot as 007 Diana ... was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... : haha Diana: nah, that's just on drop date Diana: as much as baker is a

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  to become a better photographer, so I have a bunch of pictures for you ... perform between showings. This is, of course, talking about a group that ... cheap or old clothing from thrift stores and "edits" them to make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  Senior House…   Nick H. ’18 is not planning to cover this with ... residents’ artistic impulses, for better or for worse. Some people paint ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow ... , around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  can get a lot out of it, which isn't a feeling that my coursework or ... super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  .033. This is one of the few resources that I'll swear by and continue to use ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... . Recitation This is usually your first line of defense when you leave lecture

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... 't see coming or be able to fix, and another night of falling into bed ... week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... passage of time is terrifying. Anyway, I'm off to purchase more red socks ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  Final Presentation. Everything you need to know lives on this site ... rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... ) is the amount of dedication they put to everything that they do, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  organist at Westminster Abbey, which is very strange to think about. As a ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... House alums or residents. This means that a little over 20% of the cast is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  be because of the sertraline. or both, or neither, and the thing is ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  , depending on traffic, to sit in the basement of a Sloan building. (Sloan is ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of ... , to which I responded with some hesitation (to be exact, a few months of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  cool when your professor is someone who created or worked on those ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... toy. The sketch model on the left was our works-like model which tested

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  mass transfer problem and then go on to the rest of physics. No DDR or ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009