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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  get back to learning more trivia. so oops. sorry if like, you actually ... by Cole Porter as a response to Oklahoma! The Gulf of Bothnia ... -SHEF-skee”. The phrase “return to normalcy” used by Biden was first used by Harding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Association (the MIT Sailing Club) and their families only, you can't get much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  column written by each year's alumni class secretary keeping everyone up-to ... Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to ... real publication sold on newsstands that people actually want to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  nights, it feels like i’ve sold my soul to get to mit. not in the sense of ... the world, not by far, not by a long shot. i just have to tell myself ... 't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  hanging out the bus, yelling at us to get our attention. It’s another man ... them by the heads and shake them like ragdolls and tell them to shut UP ... only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  popularized by the 19th century impressionists like Claude Monet due to the new ... painting, the hardest part was accumulating the activation energy to get ... allow me to add the smallest details by building up layer after layer, but

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  existing code, and it was written by some person. Then I need to work on the ... engineers. All my previous companies were smaller, and I wanted to get the ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  . Then worked to map out the dark and light areas of Pluto by measuring how ... , led by Jim Elliot, used stellar occultations to deduce properties about ... Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get ... questionable. For trade policy, you’d need to get governments from across the ... there's no way to verify this claim by looking at data; like in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... holiday. Apparently (according to Wikipedia, anyway) the parade began back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... even when the weather gets atrocious, the warmth of the infinite is only a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  , trying to get everything ready for you guys, they had time to stop and pose ... papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... to simpler times, where success for me was simply defined by good ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes ... himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  by MIT students. Our main mission at MIT+K12 Videos is to show folks ... like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  to me by my mom’s boss’s wife when we first moved to Chicago 16 years ... Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of ... door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012