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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... . There was Christmas music, a happy atmosphere, and there for all of it was Susan Hockfield, MIT's one and only president. A friend of mine pointed

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... schools and nights preparing last minute lessons. I'll hopefully write a separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour and just tell you guys a few things that made me happy this

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are: pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP, here's an example of a cool project: "Sociable Robot Applications -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to ... hockey jersey, I swell with pride. It's a great design for a uniform (I'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  firehose-survivors was Ana Posada. Ana, a Biology major from Lawrenceville, GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner, DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and ... becoming a adjunct Full Professor, he consulted with the Universal Textile

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I always struggled with fiction writing and long-form storytelling. Writing a news article for the school paper or a personal blog post or a school

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a biological technique that helps you detect a protein and get information about it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure ... still have a shot at MIT. Unlike Langston Hughes' poem A Dream Deferred

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  lie on a certain vertical straight line. This has been checked for the first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... distribution of prime numbers. Or if you saved a penny every hour, it would take

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.