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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... Majorana fermions. That's exciting, since the colloquium a couple of weeks ... rewarding; you start attending, and understand literally 0.01% of the words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  before… … OH! The frit should go on the FIRST layer of clear glass, not ... months before the sale. When I first learned about this fact, it raised ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same ... outside of my year and department. And even through the whole mid ... I relied on aren't the same any more. The first couple weeks of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... kind of embarrassed about showing it in front of people in the first ... the feeling of arriving at MIT for the first time, was incredibly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events--skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... the biggest one on campus. With an ample amount of seating and multiple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  'm a little less excited about the art as a whole because every piece of ... 'm talking about the MIT 150 convocation! The subject of several recent entries ... hand: the circus! My way of saying that ceremonial robes look silly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... Mitra. So did Mike Short. Apparently, pretty much every one of the several ... much the whole campus. So, really, I think you could boil this whole

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Use your contacts The whole point of networking is to create a network ... Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... collect information on is some kind of networking. The only rule of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... ? Today was "Bring Your Audience to Work Day," definitely one of the more

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  . Big surprise! [edit] Just saw the first comment about this all sounding ... 's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of ... Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... one entry. Over the next few days, I'll be sharing all of the 30-plus ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  months (after the first week of May until after the first week in July), so ... was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically ... good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... and less prepared for the actual first day of classes. This year, I was ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ’t something [his] brain keeps track of”. I find this simultaneously hilarious (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the most permanent aspect of how (if you’ll excuse the pun) [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz, and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  . *Whatever, it came before the first course. If the nominal convention of ... tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last

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

  Color by Numbers

  

  first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... fun carrying two cans of paint down the cereal aisle of the supermarket

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  gives me my first small task. steven explains one of the services that our ... consistently. i did a demo of a feature i added for the first time ever ... my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019