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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least ... relatively good at distracting myself with satisfying choices. I’m just trying

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  another hour or so to ask her questions. She told us how to get good at ... thing she wanted to do more and then sort of throwing herself at it. She ... . So I put that dream, and any really serious attempts at drawing, off to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  best decisions I've made while at MIT. 3D printers, laser cutters, and ... intimidated at my freshman-level skill set, it turns out that when you dedicate ... afternoon. This story has a postscript. During Phase I, I was working at a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT ... - which I have been doing all four years of my time at MIT). From Ting, '13 ... interns and volunteers at the Chinese-American Planning Council for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  . Li notwithstanding, I ended up becoming the chef on Saturdays at pika ... the most ferocious kitchens at MIT. Knives galore, a meat locker ... week, year-round, with over 40 members. Every Saturday, I'd arrive at 4

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ONE WHOLE YEAR AGO (man I am bad at this timeliness thing) I began the ... big presentations per year? They're usually at the end of a unit or ... . My teammates Jeremy and Fiona are shown here, hard at work developing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  glad I'm not at home, and many other typical college experiences. Today ... material was brutal. 2.007 was fun, but was backloaded (more work at the end ... the finals, I could pull off two B's. I looked at the finals schedule

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At ... grab a chair and get ready. Having completed my first semester here at ... that is at times mind boggling (I’m looking at you 8.01 [Physics] Final

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I ... hours and not getting tired at all. Anybody remember Discovery Zone? My ... at each other. Whoever rolls over the top wins. Nobody won

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the Love At Work (LAW) missions camp. The camp, founded in 1993 by Killearn ... help us out.' As I stated earlier, I will be staffing as an intern at LAW

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... with a place to sleep at night (if you want to sleep during CPW ... , representing one of their student groups at the Activities Fair, problem sets

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... students pursuing research projects at the Media Laboratory. Topics include ... . We present our toys during the Playsentations at the end of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... called 8.01, at MIT: 8.01 is your standard introductory physics class ... background at the tables (meaning that all the people who took AP Physics in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... admissions site at the end of the Fall '05 semester, and learned about some ... . Even at that early stage, I could really tell he had all of his ducks in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  sustained flood damage at some point. Still, if there's one thing that my ... ! Because in Boston, you can see something at least five percent as cool as ... not to do that. And here's Ling '07 at the top of one of the spires

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  prohibited. Consideration should be given to the rights of roommates at all ... number, and roommate. Read on, and I'll give you an answer... At MIT ... microcommunities at MIT, that together will paint a better picture than I would do in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  life so much more enjoyable, but are too commonplace at home to realize ... granted, too. Anyway, at home, I have a full-sized bed; boy was I spoiled by ... enough training for at least a Bronze medal in the Olympics. I'd like to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  deleted this post at least three times now. It's literally not even that ... video game. To reject that younger version of myself by consuming media at ... reconnected me to my culture. I speak Chinese at home, but I had never really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of ...  standing) at the college forum, wearing our high school shirts and MIT caps for ... have friends! Sometime at the beginning of 9th grade, we made our first

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  ’s Neighborhood Mister Robert Nozick was a philosopher at Harvard who, for context ... chat, he asked us what we thought of the material we were learning, at ... individuals to non-consensually renounce the property they justly own at the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016