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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  busses and travel around all throughout Europe on a budget. I had an incredible time seeing an entire array of landscapes and cityscapes that I had ... -bricked roofs of Prague; from the jutting grottos and bright blue waters of Capri

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC ... the classes are comprised of roughly 70% graduate students and 70% men

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing ... ." Erik Fogg '09 (Course 17, of Senior Haus and Phi Delts): "I'm spending 10

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually ... your whole butt off. So a few of my friends and I went camping and only

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  provost, an MIT alum, and some of them are planning on continuing the ... precipitation, so we swung on some swings, took a tour of a Stalin skyscraper, and ... 're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a ... eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching ... put on my sunglasses and walked to the railyard, hoping the sunshine

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  , class of 2011. Both of us are members of Sigma Kappa sorority and that ... and lived smack dab in the middle of one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. I spent my days capturing the effect of surface tension on

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner, with the addition of brunch on weekends and holidays. Maseeh serves lunch ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this year I didn’t fully since I cook for myself with my dorm mates and it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  2.004 and focus on 2.006 so that I can get an A/B instead of what is ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... addition to the fact that both my 2.004 final and 2.006 final are on the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  a feng shui of Youtube. First: I was on Youtube the other day and on ... , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  , still coughing up my lungs in a mucosal haze of academic slackery, and ... 'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and ... , and many of my weekends this semester are probably going to follow a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Class of 2009. Akash, Ben and I had lunch together, and while we were ... . Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  accordingly. It's hands-on, and has me rethinking a lot of my own older ... left more time for all of the brain-crack ideas and projects which I ... .901, Professor Scott Hughes kept us on a sprint through a wild variety of topics on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these ... mistake on an assignment, and magnify it a ton. That's when the "I'm not ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  on Sunday and immediately knew that this was a day of unusuality. The ... willows echo the curves of smoothly arching bridges and cyclists have the ... sunbathers sprawled supine like sardines on a plate, over the stone bridge and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  .  Sure, there are a lot of cool and a lot of awkward moments at MIT, but ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  doodles weren't working. In a "Club Cranium" round of Humdinger, Diana and ... Party - Saturday January 20 As if doing puzzles and brain teasers for an ... filled of Cranium. Some of my favorite quotes from the night: In a "Club

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007