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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  stumble across. in my time, I've heard it being used for parties, scavenger hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... . there are countless elements to the installation that I couldn't detect

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I ... . One of the most fun and surprisingly useful materials I used were bread

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... . The students wanted to know what each step does to the DNA, so I’ll try ... , split peas, and corn. The kids were most excited about the strawberries. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  feats (such anecdotes are, I think, the only way to do some shred of justice to Mystery Hunt.) One puzzle I worked on was called "Pirates of the ... converting the numbers to Roman numerals. I'll be frank: never in a bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... never crosses my mind that we won’t pull through and come back — and I am ... half, John Carroll scores. It’s a bit disheartening, but I know that we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  [annotation note="to be defined soon!"]causal inference,[/annotation] I feel ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... intervention? If I wanted to understand the impact of my vaccine, my ideal

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  office will reopen on Tuesday, January 2nd. That said, I thought it was ... , about standardized test requirements or statistics. Below I added some ... 1 or before. However, I strongly discourage waiting until the last

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  seeking advice on implementing pet programs. "I never thought I'd be able ... working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Year! I spoke with one of his UROPs, Shan Tie ‘10, who said she found the lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and ... . I had several interviews with different labs and I finally decided

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  are lots of excellent points here (I really recommend you take the time ... neutrality are rooted, I want to extend the principle of net neutrality so that ... networks, platforms, and infrastructures both online and offline. To do so, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  consumed by my final project for 6.869: Computer Vision. So I thought I would ... -approved project ideas, but my partner and I decided to propose an original idea. I ... becomes even more complicated. The iPhone graph emoji, as well as my and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  process. I think my favorite is the private jet/financial aid story from ... than laughter. "This year I wanted to put 'No Parents Allowed' on the ... visit, and recognized the admissions staffer.) "I couldn't believe that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the ... , bouncing off ceilings and onto the stage. Needless to say, I was excited ... while I sagely pondered the mysteries of the fox. After that, the course

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  &A. From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products ... everywhere, and there was confetti. Lots and lots of confetti. I could definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago, I ... , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... more of one automatically means having less of the other. That's why I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  resistance from our opponents, my teammates and I won 1 to 0. Afterwards, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  . Whenever I go to do work, the lights are low, and everything is all dark and ... note="that i am willing to admit to anyway

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  workout video[/annotation] Sleep before [annotation note="i feel so ATTACKED

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021