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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  3:30 on Patriot's Day Morning and rode off into a quiet, misty land ... stood on the bench and I stood on the bench's back, using her shoulder to ... some hot sustenance from a Dunkin' Donuts and biked back to Boston as the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE ... Now on to the athlete part. This past week has featured some pretty ... Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  title of the film, Monkey Dance, refers to a classical Cambodian dance ... Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Society on your activity list, you may want to seriously consider asking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  chair, which collapsed when I tried to fit more than three people on it. A ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... I can’t bring my laptop or a book to bed unless I want it to fall out

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I ... time writing/researching. So, from here on out, I'll try to post more ... regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... livestream itself here, so I will focus more on the 2.009 experience as a ... . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... difference. I talked to a couple of the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house ... school. You want to capture this moment, a very regular day, yet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a ... help the world transition from a fossil-fuel-powered world to an ... While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  is to provide a late-night, work-free food experience to desperate ... be quite good, and cheap. I clicked on it and was taken to the ever ... hour. CampusFood is especially popular when large numbers of people on a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  the view from my window and netflix's view of my window through another window

  

  It snowed on Saturday. Here's what I woke up to on Sunday. [caption ... o m i n g  s h a d o w and weather-dirtied window[/caption] And here's a screenshot from the Neri Oxman episode of "Abstract: The Art of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in it!" "What?" "Alright, just move back a little." "Sam, somebody's going to step on your camera if you leave it there." "Okay, I'll put it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  half-floor suites. B entry has a common entry lounge on the eleventh floor, with colossal windows on two of the walls, and we also had a suite lounge on the tenth floor a few doors down from Cory’s room. The suite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  . From what I hear, MIT students tend not to do as well on the exam as they ... , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else ... I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet ... apocalypse might show up on your doorstep asking for a charitable donation ... to you to deserve that kind of treatment? Have a friend read your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... working on some important stuff for Bayer CropScience. Anyway, I'm not going to have full internet access from work until Tuesday, so don't expet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... different from stereotypical contemporary art (i.e. a painting hanging on a ... condensation inside the cube based on the heat in the room. So, in a way, the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011