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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  week or two). Now, there are ways to do this well — for example, on your ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... ’t recommended, even ignoring the effects it’d have on your sleep cycle or social

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  Bell "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on ... be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... hopefully you're not like me, and will be willing to give it some thought. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  variables, and also got to see what it's like to watch the sun rise while you're ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  encouraged to generate their own ideas based on personal experiences. Everyone ... interest, you can snip the relevant quotes, tag them in relationship to your ... time (note: you can take 6.00 on edX with me here). Who wouldn’t want to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... , Peaceful Purgatory, on the radio. I'm excited to share my interesting artsy ... staff from a wide variety of programs on a non-regular basis to keep

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  can send a letter outlining your plans to our office: Office of ... – not just for Campus Preview Weekend, but to start your academic and ... already planning your summer, the changes from home to college ... what to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  clear what course number was going to be on my registration forms. That ... tense?] So while others were attending orientation programs on "how to ... on cooperative control between multiple UAVs. Basically the idea was to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  children is so rare on a college campus that it's refreshing to see them ... in July. If you're into modern music, art, or dance, and want to see a ... Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest ... confirmation e-mail with a link inside; click on that link to return to Change

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... many Americans pride on going to the gym regularly, the Koreans go to the ... nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to your questions" posts, where he would just harvest questions from the ... It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  ideas down on the comments! I'm always looking for new things to explore ... bring a new philanthropic challenge to MIT's living communities ... 's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... I was working on happened to be interesting enough that I shouldn ... quantitative potentiometric titration. On the third day, I limply made my way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  crust to pillow your molars on the soft spongy tissues of dough inside was ... won't renormalize your family's opinion of you as you explain to your 5 ... Hear, Or Do Our Observables Fail to Commute?” an anonymous commenter on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  DIAGRAMS??   Well then, you’re going to LOVE the 2.007 Manufacturing ... -elimination tournament on Tuesday! Quote from an email: "Each head-to-head match is a ... iterative thinking. Cheer on the competitors as they deliver poppies to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon ... Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those of climbing animals. There are also new recipes for poisons, thoughts on the brightness of burning magnesium, a call for more systematic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  SO amazing at making up jokes on the fly!  Escape Room We went to an ... (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019