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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  our society, in this day when strong forces oppose all deviations from ... students have so much freedom to pick their dorms, or why we don't force people to apply to a program and stay there, or why none of our websites

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  with our current major in 21E) or should stop doing computer science ... graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like ... (or 36 units in MIT talk) this semester! But it’s still an immense

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  heaviest weight on your chest imaginable. Or the ache you feel when the ... used to have. Or when a picture makes you want to climb into that moment ... .   No matter what you call love, at the end of the day it’s an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  is to take Monday and Tuesday as hard vacation: no work or email, just ... the final two days of Boston Calling   Mission accomplished, more or less. Pretty sure after this work/vacation I need another

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  child bride, a wedding photo of a guy with some serious sideburns, or a ... some days, I feel like nearly an entire high school semester's worth of ... make some batteries or something.

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking ... things about working at JPL is the 9/80 schedule: every 9 days we work 80

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  year, whether in pitching story ideas to my editor or seeking advice from ... or she is writing about. In the context of college admissions and everything ambitious young people apply to these days, the word “Passion” just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  know it or not, you've almost certainly already made it. Cognitive ... I hadn't visited them or anything (with the obvious exception of ... 'll do you in a few days. Start with the Sequences if you want to try

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  three days, and was deemed too good to participate ever again. The year ... want to learn American Sign Language, or want to play the ridiculously addictive ASL alphabet learning game that Mark built, or know someone who is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that ... solutions, and vice versa. Or, to express it mathematically:    

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... ocean (or just water in general) and I have had an interesting ... know when, but with all that I saw that day, I felt that it had to be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  the Latin, I take to mean "assembly", more or less, but from the event ... by an iPad, and the necessary 8000 or so engineers have gathered to ... ; I wrote the second part after having not seen them for a few days. Ah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no ... are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... ways that you never knew you could. I am grateful every day that I had

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  team with a good idea or a good team with a bad idea? There’s another GEL class on Project Management in late January (a five-day intensive ... for the summer or look over my resume, all without “holding my hand

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... ’ll occasionally go by Nate on the lacrosse field, or Tanya while around small ... the sun for my first four days here because OH GOD POURING RAIN. But

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  school. It's not as if suddenly I woke up one day wanting to be an engineer ... -up comedy, jammin' with my musician hallmates, or – as of now – professionally ... night, believe it or not.) I'd talk more, but I have a p-set to turn in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  , all made from the presence or absence of the stickers. The wall has been ... piece (or at least, I didn't catch the title) is a six-screen video of ... 55, an artists' collective in Copenhagen, is a modern day Conestoga

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all ... talker with his quiet streaks, and one day he told me that stars came in ... all this for Arecibo or if I just copied and pasted from some college

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  the humanities or the fine arts. Well, I don't know about No One, maybe ... assassin was acting out of personal reasons, political ideals - or both ... . Engineer by day, bodyguard by night, Sabrina is double majoring in computer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  or still dreaming? Seleeke Flingai (me): All the time. It's called MIT ... -inspiring times of my life. That's no exaggeration -- my four days at MIT changed my ... perfect CPW. Will I remember CPW 2007 one, five, or even ten years from now

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007