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• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... contemplate what it is like to be a “woman at MIT.” The only differences that I ... ’s Lounge (a room with some couches, a kitchen, and beds to sleep in) and have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  War, according to his bio on the GEL website. Diane, who supervises ... demonstrated that he/she is on track to be a future leader? 2) Would this student ... A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... was unable to do a halfway decent cartwheel under normal conditions and ... So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  videos meant to engage audiences in a topic, introduce them to new ideas ... Pavilion for 90 minutes to ride in a Tech Dinghy and sail on the Charles. It ... Spinning Arts is a club on campus that teaches students how to spin things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many ... problems and allow me to load new songs on the fly. This was indeed the ... digital instrument played on a digital instrument! Some background Guitar

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  hat to be a pre-show hit! So hold on Tim Gun, it looks like you are ... keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... MIT Media Lab, Seamless had a full spectrum of designs on display, from

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  versions of a lot from new frosh, is "I love my temp living group and am ... decision will allow you to make a stronger contribution to it. Let me try an ... contribute to their own school of thought, they just repeat a diluted version

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  my professor’s offer to have one-on-one office hours with him and a TA ... our adventure at, curling up on a lounge couch to watch some stupid TV ... asleep on the way back from a grownup party, pretending not to wake up when

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn ... . Eat them off a paper towel. No dishes to wash! You should really work on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  understand you on such a deep, fundamental level, and then... Poof. Four years ... -too-familiar-yet-not-familiar-enough campus. I'm just some girl who overshared a tad bit too much on some ... blathered on and on about the optimal way to make money in game and how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT, because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been ... considers herself spiritual but often has a hard time believing things on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  course, our very own Admissions blogs and MIT websites. This took a ... , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  green holders on my bench) to make labwork a bit less depressing when it ... Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... not know this (kudos to you if you know what this is as a high schooler

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of ... on a Wednesday for NO REASON—it was so good lol walking to 7/11 late ... tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  . Just like Calculus, I feel it's almost like learning a new language in ... mechanisms - but then turn to a pset or some solved examples and feeling ... exciting and a welcome break away from campus (although, on the bright side

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... Floderer gave a talk and a workshop to a packed auditorium on how to crumple ... also co-authored a paper on this system with my advisor, and travelled to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of ... relied a lot on One Direction for my happiness, using them as motivation to ... Autoethnography - a reflection on your own fan experience Normative Assessment - a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021