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• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  stars are beautiful at night and there are also bioluminescent plankton! I ... ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded ... their equipment is located at the top of the Green Building, so he has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  also placed at the one I'm in, Culmannstrasse 26. Monthly rent is ... conquer the IRONMAN--just incredible! Shoutout to everyone at Culmann for a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  school students from across the world will be competing at the Intel ... cool, I don’t look back at my science fair years because of the work I did. Not at all. Rather, I look back at those years because of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at ... go to Verdes at 2 am, I can talk about why Verdes is placed where it is ... tea is pre-labeled with “99¢”, what type of person chooses to work at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  for attendance at various talks, orientations, and club meetings. After ... shift at Hayden Library. It’s been a few months since I’ve last done my

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  .   Danny B.D. '15 and his dad, at a rest stop in Wyoming, built a ... . Just look at this ABC News broadcast about the last North American solar

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  when it came to housing. I didn’t go to CPW, I didn’t look around at ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... .426 final project, 3) presenting this final project at a showcase, and 4 ... was working on at 3am the night before). The four of us make last minute

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... about the person who put them on. Costumes tell you just by looking at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  to succeed and focused on getting the entire MIT community involved. At ... -fived Steve Aoki after he threw a birthday cake at my face. I've been going to concerts nonstop since. We saw Lady Gaga and Lenny Kravitz live at the DNC

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... think it shows that we’re all people. And at some point, being a friend to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  there I was one afternoon at MIT, talking to Dumbledore in his office ... ? No. At some point, there’s too much scatter between a set of options ... by German, and at work I was surrounded by stellar spectroscopy and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... directions, and if I go out at sunset, I get dizzy from spinning under all the ... Library. Twice. Sat in a serene fake temple at the Museum. Saw masterpieces

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  LinkedIn. My pageviews are down 80% from last week, when they peaked at an ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... hit me at Chipotle because I was too focused on the due date to pay

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT without them. *At no point in time were we in danger of starving to death

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  Tuesday • Put a bird on it at the admit gathering in Portland, OR ... • Live that aloha life with your fellow Hawaiian admits at a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  -nature to skim through these emails, glancing at the subject lines, letting ... semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... tempted to go back, revise, and maybe attempt at writing and drawing a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the ... should also look at Andrea Silverman '05's photo essay on the Glass Lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  -or-treating. The day started off like most Fridays, with 20.110 at 10am, followed by a 5.13 at 11am. As we entered the 5.13 lecture hall, our costumed TA ... greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... : next on my calendar is the Siemens Regional Finals, hosted here at MIT by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014