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• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  waved away every accomplishment I ever made by chalking it up to ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  running shorts to make trying out the new shoes easier. I thought I would ... Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  pond Doing stuff by myself (like taking the subway) makes me feel that I ... there and look at everything you pass by. And you can get to downtown ... Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  a team who wanted to learn how to build an autonomous car by building ... engineer requires starting to make your own design decisions and advocating ... to stop being afraid of making mistakes. I purchased the wrong type of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Musical Offering to Frederick the Great (by the way, I love German adjective ... DID YOU KNOW? Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has been wanted by the US ... by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  have their neighbors be eaten by countries, have entries dedicated to ... why this post is so late.. I'm really tired by the time I make it ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it! ... MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  love for pie is still only surpassed by my love for bacon and Arrested Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by ... bacterial colonies makes me want to shoot myself in the face. (Speaking of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... entire thermodynamics lecture to just talking about how cool airplanes are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ] At least I got to make a cool cup using it. [caption id ... for myself this year, so I jumped at the opportunity to make my own ... This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... . It's pretty awesome, not gonna lie. It's also kind of crazy to be able to say that I work for her, and despite her achievements, she's really

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... why You mean so much to me. Poor soul, poor soul You’re often scorned ... another day. While we may sometimes stop to question Why we take so many

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  place to live, and seeing Baker traditions like piano drop makes me happy ... 's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  shows that I could make time to watch during my first two years at MIT. So ... reason that they keep changing to Power Rangers: Zeo or Power Rangers ... season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  that i was able to help make it special for them :) watched a movie ... listening to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, but ... , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  ), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight their ... official biography and photograph, followed by the Q&A: Dr. Jonathan ... one of 15 scientists nationwide to receive the Presidential Faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your ... time to make a decision. You are not at any disadvantage. If you have ... action. We do not expect to have finished processing these materials until

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture ... problems, call us at the CPW Hotline: 617-258-6085. You may want to program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007