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• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  dissolve friendships. I've learned that you can’t get everyone to like you ... report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below, where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  getting burnt by majoring in something I thought I might struggle in. Did I ... really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  us to learn and get feedback from each other. Smaller departments ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  drawing concept art. Yeah… I guess I get inspired pretty intensely by media ... in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  side to side, because I get splitting head-and-shoulderaches afterward ... Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  Hogwarts, students actually get to do practical work with potentially ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is ... lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  school geometry by cheating off my dad. She came to 18.02 (multivariable ... (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins ... , unbelievably, half-over, zooming by in a way that it didn't seem to do last year

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are ... Books by working on MacBooks. I loved the (almost) annoying extent to which

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  aspired to be the sort of person who could just get up and run obscene ... to realize that I was getting better as a runner somewhere around 9 ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... who could get paid to research pure math? At what point did I stop ... understand just how brutal mathematics can be. As if, I was lying to myself by

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  to get off the train and insist on going around the loop three or four ... closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and ... greeted by other deephers, taking the 1 bus to main campus. It was still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  want to check it out, stop by the East Campus courtyard and help out! If ... To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  decided to mine my coworkers for Blog Content™️ by asking people for their ... further ado, I present to you DRAW TIM (the beaver) by MIT Admissions and ... -insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  nation I'd always loved was finally getting to know and love their LGBTQ ... . Phillips, 1984  "Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are ... to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  meetings, and new advertisements to peruse. Most people just stream by ... first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... by her room to say hi so we could finally meet in real life. We haven ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science ... very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... Society.” And here’s what really intrigued me (referring to a speech by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005