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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... sometimes occurs a mere nine days into term. However, since we get so many ... , but I'd still like to paraphrase a particularly excellent quote from Voo

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  get students thinking at their seats. They responded by adding a few ... 've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ... 't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  it’s a septum piercing, you can easily hide it if you need to by just ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... wearing a red dress with white polka dots to match her red (pink?) hair. She

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my ... group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... to reach the end of the line. Every once in a while, a train passes by ... L. '22 and Derek Y. '22 to join and we head up towards a ramen place

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  and Circle Center Mall. It is linked by the indoor skywalk to the Hyatt ... hope I'll get to see you! ... The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... feel like I need to push myself harder and harder to get into a good ... wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I

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

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... standardized American can to shame. It's a totally different cultural experience

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... . In the end, you get a finished product that is just the way that you

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  to family matters? However, I have been consistently getting A's and ... acceptances to not be revoked, or is it more of a 'play it by ear' situation ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  encouraged to attend by Tina (my host). My favorite was the parody of Justin ... really yummy. Saturday afternoon, I found myself rushing to an A Capella ... group of us prefrosh sat down on some couches and tried to have a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  “how to save a life” by the fray. the chorus goes like this: where did i ... has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... to think that i’ve been strengthened by these things nonetheless. that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  laboratory, which means that a bunch of college-type kids have to build a bunch ... numerous other, smaller sensors to navigate around a playing field. There are ... on a tiny robot that likes to wobble all over the place. We're making

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... —and who knows who will visit next! As a result, we get the most accurate ... get to critique scientific papers right in front of the authors! Every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  ) vertex, you get a most spectacular vertigo-inducing view of Ames St with ... convince her to write a guest entry? No, that's not gonna happen. ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  documentary uses a lot of archival footage and images to get the image across. I ... in touch with a lot of the folks I used to talk to back then to get ... first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... many students at MIT. . . not by me. However, since it was a dorm trip ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008