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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  . Sounds legit right? At this point, you might be curious as to how we ... these.... mainly that they usually come together at the last minute ... 't finish our toy 10 minutes before we had to be there for presentations

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  about applications for the next round of fellows will be available at 20 ... Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more centuries—at the very least. She started working in a biogerontology lab when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  film "Giant Leaps," produced for the Giant Leaps Symposium: It ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different ... Naval Postgraduate School have had more graduates selected for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the ... orders aside, you are correct. I will be working at Los Alamos National

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

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  competition, running a Book Exchange for students at the beginning of the ... a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day ... 't enough for you or right for you, it's easy to start your own. Some past

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  (7:17 AM) Sorry for the delay in updating but the rest of the day has ... even though we're working at full speed, they keep giving us puzzles ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  interested in catching up on some TV. This month, you can see (at least) three ... up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... and pair them with eight beautiful women in a competition for $250

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... "Soccer Bots," culminating in an ultimate Soccer Bot battle/tournament at ... to sail at the MIT Sailing Pavilion. Freshman Arts Program (FAP) FAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  were invented at the Pillsbury Bake-Off. It's not the holidays unless Sam ... dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6 ... groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star Market for some necessities (i.e. Frosted Flakes). (Although it was kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask ... treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... dirt driveway in our costumes, usually something my mother sewed for us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  campus for an interview (a big caveat here is that it's a C at MIT, which ... work at that school and he said "Because they offered for me to be the ... programs, I ended up going to faculty members' actual homes for dinner. At

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  've been trying to give up certain things and routines I take for granted so I'm not so reliant on them. I gave up shaving for IAP and now I can go about two weeks before I start to feel shaggy. I stopped showering for 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the ... for Mechanical Engineers This class has 1 hour lectures every Monday and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives ... done around the world, and to promote role models for younger people ... -violence, creativity, courage, and responsibility for one’s actions. The award will go to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳 ... appreciated the grading scheme for the class—fixed grade cutoffs with 20 “extra ... extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025