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• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  differently? The other main reaction I get to my “being the dumb friend” spiel ... extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , followed by ice cream at the famous Mike's Pastries. We tried to walk off the ... to teach about fifteen kids (between the ages of 8-12) about Italy! We ... the way there, we stopped at the North End playground to do some physics

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to ... . Ivy and I spent an hour circling the events we wanted to go to. We ... tour. Enter Kavita from Florida. The three of us decided to go to New

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  [email protected] to see if you are eligible to join us in the fall or get ... to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them ... mission to return the favor but knew that I could not do it alone. I wished

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  was really afraid because your hand has to get really close to the flame ... game can never possibly end. Though I tried to help out by eating the pot ... -mails describing their kosher chili cookoffs, invitations to the sukkah they set up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  MIT student. I think the reason this question comes to mind are ... began taking steps to remedy the situation. 2. The Larry Summers thing. 3 ... school are getting married. It's a weird thing to be a female scientist in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  anyway, I'm off to the bookstore- I'm getting my Harry Potter book at ... long cruise to the Caribbean. It doesn't get much better than that ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  the lab to ask us questions and get to know us. 2.004- Dynamics and ... go by so quickly! Everyone who completes the class qualifies to go on ... we get to meet leaders in Clinical Research in the Boston area, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  frame, with only the deck left to complete.   A team effort to get ... be easily crossed by foot during these periods. However, during the ... designed, detailed, fabricated, built and tested by the student teams. There

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  and phone line closures orchestrated by the government to control the ... you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... I have been amazed by the lengths many African students are willing to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer ... due to the tests this week, so I'm seriously going to snooze till 1 PM ... professor: (on the board, while trying to abbreviate "Associated Homogeneous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  we can get to help solve the problems. There's very much an "I ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... biology and one in brain and cognitive sciences. So as I walked to the exam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  grades with time to do other things besides study? And I got the impression ... took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... someone my age getting a new promotion, moving up in the world, and have a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

    and laughing at a bizarre article about the "craziest items seized by ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it out the door at 9:50, and made it to Astrophysics at 10:03. Our exam

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  opportunities to get hands on rather than just brainstorm ideas. Fireflies, the ... The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  moment to notice the Green Building, standing taller than any other ... saw the entire campus, from west to east, east to west, and all the ... . It was so beautiful I didn't want the plane to land. II. Almost

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many ... thing you do when you study history is to realize that while the past

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  to generate the ideas that will bring technology and society into the ... think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should ... projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008