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• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... Boston hot on the heels of a long, terrible night of pseudopacking. Packing ... one of those highway robbery places you see on billboards like 'Idaho

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  towards society's good… I cannot. Sure, the members of the Underwater ... On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on-campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  are.) Anyway, the point of all this is that I had a really good meeting today with one of my favorite professors, Carlos Lois. (The good thing ... , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  tons of good applications. If you've ever had an MRI, congratulations ... Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  women, young and old alike–splash water on each other as a form of ... in a triple on the [annotation note="please don’t remind me of how ... note="Salami addiction can creep up on even the best of us. 😔

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  great way of bringing closure. Even though it isn't like I'm bring closure ... way through the mandatory science classes, completed dozens of psets ... . When hundreds of families descend on the MIT campus once again - it'll be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of ... here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets ... I was on. Looking back, I think it's kind of like the Borg ... : Pimp My Sukkah. Hello everyone! FYSH (first year students of Hillel) is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  the third quarter of my sophomore year of high school working on MIT ... seattle’ is engraved on every Zune) (this part’s not) At the end of the ... (Boston’s subway) on my way home from the office, at about 10PM. However

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  for a part of a second.  There are lights on the left and right sides of the gameboard that go on when Alex finishes.  We also practised ... new MIT Solar Car, so I'm not actually sure being on Jeopardy! even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  . Another thing summer is good for is learning something new. This summer I learned to ballroom dance. I also managed to catch up on a lot of reading ... Boston can be a lot of fun. Rock On.

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person," everyone at MIT ... 't "good enough," or that you won't go on to do something completely ... experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets ... 's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good question, which is why I went trekking to Professor Warren Seering (my new

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  phrases on five slips of paper. Fold up these pieces of paper, stick all of ... and start drawing slips of paper and acting out the phrases on them. The ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  that hour sublime On the Subway Express. Now isn't that an amazing way to ... History of New York City (21H.235). That's where all the things are coming ... . Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  people are pretty good at this. The authors graphed the number of problems ... actually think this is a good way to lay out a UI course. I think designing ... discusses the history and culture of Africa, focusing on countries where

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop ... does, but you can control how good of a friend you are, so you should

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your ... some pretty good seats near the back, affording a pretty good view of the ... missed out on getting the best cooking book of all time at Barnes and Noble

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007