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• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  underuse, our hands trembling with carpal tunnel, our freshly sprouted beards disheveled with sorrow. Also, when you build your own ray caster from scratch ... was also a lot of C++ compiler wankery to deal with, because we built it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  squads of around 9 with people from other ROTC programs like Northeastern and BU who we have never met before, and set off with everything we brought with us (our sleeping bag, extra boots, dry socks, food, etc

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult ... place! However, as with our undergraduate applications, the cruel ... performed her valedictory speech with her friend and salutatorian Sameer in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  with her roaming all over London, getting all paparazzi on palace guards ... :) ~*~ This IAP I went to the Philippines with Yuri ’10 and Anita ’11 to work on ... explore the country’s development needs, meet with NGOs (Non

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  my schedule, but now it's time to show just what I've been busy with ... features and spins your part really fast, letting you touch it with sharp ... injection mold yo-yos with. Until then, we were assigned a "Learn to use the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  a JPG image with my picture, stuck it on my blog page while it was ... 're academically stylish and enter the Institute with enough panache and credits to ... as an intended Physics major with a Music minor, switched to Electrical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  . It all began with the 2012 Class Council emailing everyone with the ... expected us to treat a completely unmoderated shared document with respect ... with the spreadsheet, there is now a FORM you MUST fill out if you want a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  consider living in a dorm with kitchens instead of a dining hall. (Burton ... people with food allergies. You can go shopping for food even if your dorm ... in a dorm with a dining hall requires that you buy into the House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  -intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved ... only ever involved with lighting or set related tech. Spring semester of

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  was really the feeling we walked away with – that with hard work and ... with such a wide breadth of interests because they view it exclusively as ... their $40,000 fellowships to support women in science. With that in mind

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... research at MIT, some of which I was involved with, if successful research ... spoke with another close friend of mine about what I encountered after my

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in ... come stay with me, because I'm hosting prefrosh! If you're deciding ... get accepted, you can come stay with an MIT student and we'll show you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  is the Assistant to Dean Marilee Jones, with the comment "Great story ... grocery store with his mother, he would calculate the amount of cash she ... his fascination with mathematics. [...] Now, at age 17, he is preparing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  there were many issues that we wrestled with, the topic that I found most ... , disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this ... providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts ... by the name of “short hockey stick”, with which they may launch the ... guarded by a vigilant goalie with the power to apprehend nearby pucks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  conscious and time does not pass —then I wake up with the thing already made ... meal with me in deep detail, and have been told I'd make a good Anton Ego ... chatting with a friend ...all at once most like the last experience, if

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  : Complete by 2000 The mission was scheduled to begin at 1800, with a tight ... ticking. We sped across the bridge with our carts, moving carefully so as to ... night, which meant that the streets were filled with people for whom we

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  -day naps, ice baths, and hanging out with all your friends you've been ... are two of our sophomores with our team’s mascot: Hood Beav. He’s about ... . But don't worry – I emerged from this scrimmage healthy and with all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with ... hold your phone up to some of the paintings, they'll come alive with AR ... that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  another game where i work with my friends and try to not die to things that ... all good things are done with other people. i wonder often, how i have ... we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024