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• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  's building in the courtyard. I'll take pictures as soon as I replace the ... times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from ... . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway. My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I'm just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  One year ago, Gosha and I embarked on a whirlwind IAP trip across ... ,[annotation note='fyi i ran this blog by him to make sure it’s all good']so I ... France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk ... the MIT Bubble. when i heard this, i realized how unaware of what’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  moment, I wished I could understand it all, and I promised myself that I ... curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the ... thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... . We were told to make something that has necklines and appendages, so I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this ... , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... ? I don't really know either, and it's ben 35 minutes. That said, he just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it ... and independent and refreshed, even though I always get (un)lucky enough ... sitting so close to me. I even love it when things go terribly wrong and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Hi, I'm Jess L. '12. I met Yan during our freshman year (she even ... -interpolated constellations swimming in celestial gutters cluttered with light pollution. As I ... penurious radiators, I can't help but rhapsodize my midsummer memories of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  ). A couple more things he said that I really liked was when he was asked ... . Paraphrased, because I'm too afraid to try to quote directly from memory because he was so eloquent and witty (I sound like such a fanboy

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Friday morning, which featured a stunning international menu. I had this ... me? Well, I only found out about the dinner about two hours before it started, so I set out to make a great American delicacy: Sloppy Joes. Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  people, each imparting their tidbits of knowledge and advice. I was in your ... money and a big research grant, and a state-school with a free-ride. I'll admit that I chose MIT and that the decision (for me) wasn't very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... shaping up nicely (sorry, I didn't have a camera with me). And across Main

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  Unfortunately I don't think I will be talking about the duality ... maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But this is a post ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon enough though, I had to start thinking about internships, and I couldn ... usually enter by submitting a resume. I didn’t have a resume, and when I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics ... , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research. But I first became interested because if you figure out those beautiful

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  semester, “That’s so cool! I would’ve loved that as an undergrad.” “... oh ... cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6.2060 (Microcomputer Project Laboratory) final project, I’ve recreated Guitar Hero using

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  It's been roughly a little under 2 months since I moved onto campus. Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... MIT, I took a train, which was a rather nice mode of transportation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021