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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the

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

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of ... within our first 15 minutes of being outside; it got old fast). Anyways, I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of ... . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... maximizing the height of trajectory. You may do anything to the bottle except ... the aerodynamic properties of our rocket. He goes into depth about the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the ... box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... eye on scientific breakthroughs of the past decade or so: As a member of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  separated. The first school is the school of engineering, the most popular ... . The format for the evening will be each of the representatives to ... that the average number of schools people are applying to is pushing 15

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8.07 received a free copy of The Maxwellians on the first day of lecture. On the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I ... the suite lounge, one with a phone playing “Chariots of Fire” on full ... the best! And shoutout to you too for reading my first blog post! I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  great quantity of snack food from the convenience store on the first floor ... a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... have no idea who I was began anew. The first few weeks were an

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... , the average MIT student is more than conscious of problems that don ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... that contained the word “vagina”. But here I am. I first heard about the Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a ... title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  [annotation note="read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet."]Until very recently,[/annotation] I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did it conflict with the season premiere of Ben's favorite show, The O ... matter how innovative and well maintained, the systems of levees, seawalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005