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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... lunch hour and get me ingredients for cookies and pie! So I guess instead ... talk to one another via chemical signals. One neuron gets excited, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  's tough to get good outdoor flying weather in New England on a consistent ... time -- but you do get 6 units of academic credit for them!), but not ... to mention, are copious sources of free food. Advising for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  by day it only gets harder and harder to focus and ignore the ... superhero. How many new heroes and stories have missed their chance to ... into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I, likely late to Building 9 for the fourth time that week and ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about. I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  thought there was no better way to summarize second semester than by ... of people that show up to our events. For popular events (popular ... and enjoy some delicious chow. 2) Getting decked out for dinner. And

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  asked to design a prototype car for the nonprofessional weekend autocross ... car and the team must defend their decision. They also get to sell the ... competition for many years generally only make minor adjustments to the original

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our ... to drive back home only to head into Boston again a few hours later for

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  like to tell my friends and relatives is that “IAP, which stands for ... to. Of course, not all students come back to MIT for IAP. A few of my ... Boston, anywhere from New York and California to Spain and India. Since

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place ... when I got to MIT, I would proceed to get C’s on pretty much all of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  in my [annotation note="PR stands for pull request, a way to request changes to a codebase on github."]PR[/annotation] to separate CKP logs by ... . [annotation note="in our team, in order for a PR to be accepted and merged into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  me, CPW schedule right by my head. I finally just lost the ability to ... liveblog to share. Me with our new dean of admissions, Stu Schmill. Matt Mc ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... bit, as we all get ready for the day. … After my first class, I meet up ... just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of ... as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of ... life (e.g., walking from main campus to this parking lot, just walking by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  liberated from solid food for the rest of my life by an errant puck. Yes, we ... . When the cultural houses moved to New House and non-Russian speakers moved in, the new residents decided to dub themselves English House and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on ... spring semester after moving to a new dorm! Immediately after joining, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much ... ; I decided to paint mine for the senior who had comforted me when the ... . We crowded by the elevators to hug him, and when he left, someone said

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  -mail after announcing that fact: "For those who are concerned, I will try to ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  cheap way to get my last Döner fix for a long, long time. Thankfully, 3 ... 't get to go around Europe hearing about people's awesome jobs and taking ... at a Spanish tapas bar. I for one was shocked to discover that tapas

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007