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• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... work on a tuesday to bash my head on the same bug i've been bashing my ... code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... of my Harvard classes overlapped with a weekly lab, and trusted me to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... chancellor speak, seen the president dance, witnessed a hack, listened to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... have two attitudes about: the get-used-to-it or shut-it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to ... was a few more meters away to say things outright. I was a girl; I wasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  wanted to print the current W1MX logo on a PCB, but the best he could get ... sure you need to give your real call sign” “That’s totally a real call ... to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more entertaining than making a pile of clothes to give to Goodwill while singing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  go to bed a little later than usual. Usually, by this time I would have ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  get to campus by bus, or about half that if I decide to drive. The bus ... here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... wanted to choose who I'd be living with, I wanted a place I could have a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few ... it took for my plane to arrive, board, depart, and probably get to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... class has a specific number. We typically refer to technical classes by ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , it's a relatively low cost, and it's a time commitment, but if we get ... wish we had it, perhaps," he said. He got this idea by working with a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... their days to help you make a short film. And for getting caught in ... start to finish. And during that process, I learned that making a movie is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  to realize that I was getting better as a runner somewhere around 9 ... year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... day after not running for a while, I shocked myself by running my first

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  little food truck snooze? Do they dream of serving MIT kids or getting a ... bucks a sandwich.. Well then we'll go to Cosi. I'll be here all week ... area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there ... , and we had to get back to work, so we went back inside and psetted until

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024