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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam-the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are ... .  Before each performance, the performers and directors would come together

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

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Today's an MIT student holiday! Years ago the faculty decided that students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic ... years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish ... suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... 's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All around the world, students, parents, every day workers, and more gathered

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  [annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  and celebrations usually last for the entire day and are structured around a central theme, like flight, or pictures, and once even The Sound of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the ... one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field

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

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is ... 'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech ... the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you ... departments, this task is called the “Senior Thesis.” The requirements for the ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The landscape of the Charles River around MIT is almost ... , and decided on this one for brevity's sake. Still, you must know, the ... its famous water pollution, making the Charles "Swimmable by 2005

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating. you didn’t grow the lettuce or the wheat or the tomatoes, or crush the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We both did one-month long externships through the MIT externship program that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020