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• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One ... East Campus courtyard has become the site of interesting happenings. For ... ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are ... Levinson (8 years as a student at MIT), Jeff Goldblum's technician who, along

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  interesting to look at. I tried to pick things that are all relatively short ... mathematicians often embrace ideas that at first glance (and later glances!) seem nonsensical, or the way mathematicians often hold obvious truths at arm’s length

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a ... - Notoriously a challenging class at MIT, 2.006 is all about modeling fluid flow

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  department at MIT is notorious for their (Stuffed) Monkey and a Gun demo, which ... glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another ... calculations that Ernest Rutherford used when he shot alpha particles at a gold

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the ... at the bottom. And suddenly I wondered, why is it white? So I sat back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 ... person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... (pictured at right). Ever wonder if that spouse, friend or co-worker on the ... hold the answer. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  did the test again (I only studied briefly for SAT I), considering that ... previous factors still weigh in?" We always look at a given applicant ... -mail?" Not yet. We are discussing this as a possibility for the future, but it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... ://mitguidetoresidences.mit.edu/map/maseeh-hall), the cost of living at Maseeh ranges from $5,120 - $3,575. For reference ... rankings and thoughts: 1) Baker: because I was hosted here for CPW and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the ... , looking at the other cruft blog posts[/caption] As one of the least crufty

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic (when I was at an athletic peak, letting running fill the place of so many ... came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... bizarre half-conscious state. Events unfolded at about ten times normal ... !" At the same time, I dreamed that I was running through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... both at the ideas I have for revisions and the original quality of the ... the scenery, such that you will be looking at trees for quite some time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  permanent or constant in my time here at MIT except for blogging. Even my ... 've really learned at MIT, or if I've only learned how to ask for help. I walk ... left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  travels. But what if you throw a ball up into the air and catch it at the ... about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I ... sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... despaired at the possibility that I lacked the intrinsic motivation that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025