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• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  enough to get Jeremy '09 in our suite this year, who idolizes Mike Short ... eventually moved to the bathroom. By popular request of the suite, we did ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  last weekend just to get a Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino. Well, I ... you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  by accident. We had purchased train tickets to go from Zurich ... the team get on its feet and walk, I’m excited to see the next ... wrote about his awesome experience traveling to Europe with the team! You

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  get help with managing missed classes. They are going to encourage you ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  just can’t seem to get over the thing with my hair.  My nervous reflex ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... , despite having bleached it myself repeatedly!). I forgot to bring my book

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  't, shouldn't be the real reason. It's not getting to the heart of the matter to ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  ." On Monday I had an appointment with MIT Medical, to get the irregular ... to try: be blindfolded for 24 hours, inspired by a blog post I read. It ... between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  by covalent bonds, which don’t allow electrons to move around easily ... everything had to be done painstakingly by hand. Despite this challenge, they ... was just because I didn’t want this blog post to get uncontrollably long

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green ... ="attachment_90798" align="aligncenter" width="507"] this summer i've been biking to ... rides This iteration of "things that are golden" was inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel ... Langer has made enormous contributions to the fields of biotechnology and ... dedicated to celebrating his incredible achievements. Albert Kwon, a Junior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... . We'll show you how to use Zephyr to hang out with friends, get help ... you don't have to drive to get here. See how much maple syrup you can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found little ways to fight them off at this point. But, back to IAP. I wanted

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT ... what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Headcover – Show off your MIT alumni status to your golf buddies by impaling a ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... something like that), you're getting this instead. Yeah, I know - horrors ... being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  . National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ... ) Herrell's D) Christina's Boston and Cambridge are home to many other fine ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... to brush up on their classroom experience and get some fresh teacher ... from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your