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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  -class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of ... thing about MIT is that about 90% of the student body really has no idea ... school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of thin layer of insulating material called Kapton sandwiched between two sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  When you think of people at MIT, maybe you think of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think of the Nobel winners, such as Prof. Wolfgang

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  clubs, but didn't drop any clubs from last year, so now I'm kind of overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... much, and being part of this station is one of my favorite things about

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle ... of the images for a better view!][/caption]Why settle on a bicycle? Why

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender ... number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  : 1) people are afraid of new things, 2) you can always find ... other metric of engagement that exists are completely meaningless. It was ... portion of their time on Earth? Then, at the pit of my despair, I had

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H ... first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at Mccormick represents the culture, sense of community, and overall fun you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  Heyo everyone! It's Mimi again! I recently became a member of MIT's Educational Studies Program, a student group that runs a variety of educational ... teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now ... ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of ... 'll go is not who you'll be. Most of all, try to enjoy your senior year; it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood of my old ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax. Everywhere I turn my head, I see vibrant signs of life. People are painting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ducks instead of koi fish) Oh, and every room comes with one of these

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Holidays from MIT! Images of the Season

  

  Happy holidays!!! Right now, some of you may be frantically ... memories below. From the Department of Chemical Engineering: (drawn on the windows of building 66 during the 2014-15 holiday seasons)            From

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I ... hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 10, 2015