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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  closer in the future. I decided right then and there I was going to get a ... VR. If you guys want to get involved as well, I suggest buying a pair ... Enterprise and challenge participants to dare to take the steps necessary to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... to get there? [Continue reading "Outside the Norm"]

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an undergraduate, she made sure to take time to explore our campus and enjoy the ... , “Other than getting people sick, bacteria have many useful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they allow me to take photographs. I should ask my classmates sign photo

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but I also wanted it to act as an anchor. I told myself that ... throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; exercise I took Yoga last year so I could get closer to knocking out the PE

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  up to it to get a physical note, but it was all a fairly easy process ... since Monday. It's now next Monday. I'm getting better, though, and that's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  . The major lingering problem we were still having was getting DDA to work ... course 6 class we wanted to take. Last semester, we finally took 6 ... semester, and while they did seem interesting, we felt like we wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... , getting to choose which of my tasks to tackle next instead of being forced ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  get back to MIT or that Ben will buy me one to advance the cause of my ... that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage of four Japanese girls to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... 5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  into your 'camera'. To save computation, you cast 'light rays' in reverse ... build apps with them." Confusion persisted. "I fail to understand your ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  ; it was a privilege and a joy to read your applications, and we ... introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  much you need to spend before you sell anything on your truck: between ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... planning to go to the Nate Silver event the same evening -- but that’s okay

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  to recalibrate your brains: that's awesome.) The tradition has served ... used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , including tributes to Batman, LOTR, and R2D2. If you're unfamiliar with the MIT ... evening, or early Sunday morning (it's always hard to tell with those who do ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep ... subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their findings, creep could be reduced to the point where concrete could last for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010