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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... from the end of IAP:

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  almost 6 weeks. I saw one of the first friends I made when I got to MIT, a ... puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  ’s Metropolis, then you’ll know that it was one of the first ... event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the ... ! You may wonder how the showing of a classic silent film could pack an

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can ... . For the class of 2025 [annotation note="oh god so young"] applying next

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  like stepping confidently into the center of a deep puddle, knowing your boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... 18. get it?) The value of i choose 18 is (34376687 + 1499084559 i

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I ... sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on the first night.     While waiting in line, my friend and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  of and be first author on the paper describing it. In some sort of ... recommendation for my graduate school applications. In the first project I worked ... even when I wasn't designing the experiments I had a lot of freedom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  REMARKS Susan Hockfield, President, MIT 9:20-9:50am OVERVIEW OF THE ENERGY ... addition to today's forum presentations, though, there are a whole bunch of ... industry experts!" Some of the finalists' ideas include Phototaxis Solar

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great ... -Fair (International Fair), one of my favorite (and yummiest!) events of the year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  electric drill for the first time in East Campus as rotating troupes of pre ... moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  's First Law of Motion. The door to room 412 swung open. The walls were ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  proud of me.  First generation Latino and the first from my school to be ... rush week was the first full week of classes.  This week is career fair ... . Example – If it’s the first day of my first year of college classes, I will

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face ... first impression of Manhattan was cemented by the shockingly audacious

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries of the first ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  know about the MIT alumna who is known as the "Mother of the Internet ... Sun Microsystems, inventor of the spanning tree algorithm (!). Check ... is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009