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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  some reason, I've always been fascinated with schedules, calendars ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  I've missed mystery hunt every year so far. Freshman year I found ... moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to convey a few revelations I’ve had recently. This was adapted from an essay

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007