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• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  (Sean) and thank him for giving such a helpful presentation at the AAAS ... undergraduate at MIT majoring in physics. Rush Holt: Physics! Me: Yes, I gather ... awkward” alarm. Rush Holt: Who do you work with at MIT? Is Rush Holt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I ... would let me handle anything thrown my way. Last week, MIT laughed at ... remark at how awful my diagrams were, and took a break only when my stomach

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 's coming at us from space, or b) out in space, that aren't what we're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  of dried squid meat from a pungent Chinese grocery dig that sold at ... “gewurtztraminer” and “garbanzo beans” in the same line, Jean-Georges towers at a ... 's practically radioactive. At skin depth, Jean-Georges is the type of celebrity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  commercialism; namely, Valentine's Day celebrations. 2. Nobody at MIT hates me ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... the people/entities/organizations at MIT who probably will not be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on ... , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... closeknit and couldn’t wait to meet at CPW. When I stepped off the Peter Pan

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because ... , and there was hardly anybody at the water park. We went on all the water ... at the grocery store, or order them on Campusfood.com from Beantown

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  sophomore year is the worst, but it's also kinda the year class-wise, at least ... I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this ... 've heard is harder but very very doable. Most people at MIT take this class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  -handed, which has been… less than ideal for glassblowing at MIT. I play the bass ... and Japan over the summer) Learning new skills at MIT (I’m a ... ) being an international student at MIT travel opportunities at MIT (study

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  felt like to see her apart from my annoyance at the bodies pushing firmly ... towards the exit. I was fed up with Paris at the end of it all. Though I ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... one spends at MIT, there are always new rooms, new lounges, and new ... items that I unfortunately had to leave at home.) [carousel image1

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  eccentric performer and a savant at everything music theory – even the complicated stuff like jazz. He has won 7 Grammys at just 30 years old and has ... they doing at MIT – a science and engineering school? Well firstly, MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  and results deduced. today, i am observing at Artemis, which is a 1m ... will be heading over to IAC-80 (80cm telescope) at some point and then ... life," i decided to look at graduate schools that require fall grades

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least several people. At least I know that I’m not alone. tick I’m fucking ... 't used my time wisely at all. It feels like I've done nothing for this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all ... communities at MIT that I fit into, but another reason was that I never took

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at ... hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... classes or strangers at a cafe"]one structured life drawing session before

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... at their own universities—student populations filled with clout-chasers, dispassionate hoop-jumpers, what have you. At MIT, while these people certainly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  performer from Brooklyn. since she has a kid at home, she literally flies up ... bodies in different ways. the instructor told us to move around the room at ... concepts. none of these have ever been at the forefront of my mind when I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  product manager position. At one point in the interview, they asked me, "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart ... 'm a loud, outspoken individual. For the most part at MIT, my character

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022