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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  (no kidding), and a final presentation. During one of the presentations ... their digital cameras and took a picture of me for the benefit of the ... and mimicked me within the span of 30 minutes. As I left for my 4 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... driving this for the first time, Jensen (TA) and Amius are teaching us how ... (wahoo!) and the rest of us swam in a sea of anxiety while Jensen provided

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... meant seeing the sunrise very occasionally for the first time in months—and the sunrises and sunsets of the past two weeks have been spectacular

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of ... back where I started. Here’s an view of the town (top) and of ... resonated with yells and the incessant thump and scrape of paddles against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  nightly spooky tours. And kid-friendly “reenactments” of the Trials ... of the oldest [and largest] continuously operating museums in the ... . There’s also Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthplace and House of the Seven

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of ... of the glitz and glam of being the next Zaha Hadid. As the year ... the time and peace-of-mind to dedicate a huge chunk of Sundays to church

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  ’t.   On your left will be more of the same and, eventually, a train. Get on ... look into the first floor to contemplate some art. There is a lot of art ... for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  : check out the back of a US$5 and you'll find Daniel Chester French 1871's ... For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... , but well worth the visit and time away from the office. I'm still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures ... the craziest and most entertaining lecturers to grace the front of 10 ... proceeded to tell us about the discovery of the element administratium and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... again, and ran back out into the middle of the road, plying passerby with ... It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  communities and was featured in Glamour Magazine's 2006 College Women of the ... agencies. I participated, made a lot of new friends, and got the best peanut ... to print out a resume and go to one of the orientation meetings for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  ever-worsening condition of Senioritis and the stress of knowing that we ... pi and not the digits of your phone #? --You are one well ... with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story ... note="and watched youtube videos of the ones i couldn't"]I could get my hands on[/annotation], and literally cannot count the number of times that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... the same talking points. I have plenty of stories, and I know waaay too ... Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  learning, experimentation, and innovation. For example, in the first year of ... Chrysler on the performance characteristics of acceleration, braking, and ... (Aero/Astro), and 15 (Management) students. On top of the satisfaction of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  Hallo blogger faithful! Undoubtedly you've noticed that the times, they are a changing. The air is crisp, the trees are ebbing into their autumn palette and just as winter comes every year, so too do birthdays

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  rules, median and IQR will be better indicators of the data because it was ... the aquarium, museum of science, and the Maseeh Boat Cruise come to mind ... our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025