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• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... snazzy, something that I would still enjoy. I didn't want to spend a ton of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... storage unit delivered to the dorm easily beat a stressful, last-minute rush

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  to sleep. But there is learning to be done! So I make a mental note to ... -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... a catalogue of sorts here. I guess Fridays are whatever you make of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show ... individuals—-to give life to words on a page. This is my experience from

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... 'll find a bunch of stuff only available to admitted students, including ... guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information securely with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  , has defrosted milk in a shower, and needs you to know, she's on Tik ... can draw HORSES (!), but prefers to ride a bike, and is dating Harry ... to make projects, enjoys shouting people's last names at them, and has

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... 's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student ... or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess ... play a varsity sport. *sigh* Sometimes they expect you to have it all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  harmful, as it might make a student reluctant to drop one activity in ... A few months ago the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard ... interest them with energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... Square a return to Chinatown, where I bid Sam farewell Special thanks to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it this way makes it seem like a chore, but I needed a way to hold myself accountable. Setting it as a daily goal made it easy to see when I was becoming

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame ... dream: to make a hopscotch down Vassar St, or the Simfinite. Anyways, here

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  to make sure you don't forget anything. There's just one little detail ... .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high ... unlikely that any of you will get to see it unless someone starts a Pay

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  , which I also wrote about. You upgrade a slot machine to make rent payments ... game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of ... to fix a time machine before it explodes and resets everything. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Corp, making textile inventions like a faulty needle sensor for knitting ... to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... admissions blog, I'm gonna extend this a bit to rant about this pervasive idea that you have to go to an Ivy or a Stanford or an MIT in order to become

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  my resume to half the booths I walked past because I may have gone a ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I ... and started walking towards them. I took a flier to be polite, then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  using their talents and abilities to actually making a difference in the ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  almighty MIT time. MIT time is a rule that applies to [annotation note ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster ... be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024