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• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  ,105890" caption="missing the normal version of WNRS which is currently on loan ... sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... of me that I'd thought I'd outgrown or discarded— I'd close my eyes and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  growth. When I look back on all of the long drives west from Long Island to ... each dance. To extend the "coming-of-age movie" analogy, the CTY Canon is ... moment is a global or local extrema. The idea that any period of my life

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for students are formative or summative, and 11.129 is more likely to talk about how to keep students from cheating on them. Yesterday in 11.125, we

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in foreign schools"][/annotation] started today— much to the dismay of my

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to my partner, Janyce, “Come on, we’re driving in to Cambridge tonight to ... ’m ready to celebrate right now.” And what a party it was! On my first week

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  personal trainer always seems to put on Food Network... and Rachael Ray is ... necessary to use protection... ...so I put on a pair of lab goggles ... DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of ... minutes or so to shield my book and get rained on. Then it was time. I ... to Firestorm. Which is where I am now.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  East side of the park, along 5th Avenue. The park is rectangle that is 0 ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  interests. I guess I had a lot on my mind. I like to write, but this is ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... like the idea of a "journal" -- a book just about what I do or feel every ... lost it before you could get it down on paper or somewhere else you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  that’s unique to me. The middle of the semester is a perennially bad time ... . There is a real and very understandable temptation at MIT to take on more ... opportunities present that you try to take advantage of them all. Another part is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  regard it with more or less favor, as is shown by the fact that each one of ... , reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the ... 't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  themselves to the elaborate, colorful tapestry of art which forms an enormous ... one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field. MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  audience. But most of the time, he stuck to the topic, which thoroughly ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word ... of sitting still, and why Old English is so incredibly foreign to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is ... Practice. We do some acting, but the main focus of the class is on directing ... to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of ... versions of: 8.01: Physics I (the Concourse version is taught by a good friend of mine) 3.091: Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry 9

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005