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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , and for the first time in 3 years, I don’t need a bottle of hot sauce to ... the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... the competition organizers have given them a large box full of motors ... use a tachometer to measure the motor rotational speed as a function of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  chose wisely.   View Larger MapThe first half of this drive was ... MIT was the first school that popped up. And they'd never heard of it ... Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  seeing shooting stars for the first time because we’d gone hundreds of ... !: I’ve started watching the show every weekday and keeping track of my ... education and teaching, and this was one of the first ways I followed that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to provide the first 10 base 16, since hex is the way to go. 0x0. Lonestar ... 't read Korean, but it's track 11 on The Third Eye]. Cherry Filter is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  .  For the first half of our trip, we decided to try "real" camping in a ... effort for me to put myself in the shoes of the student.  This whole ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  take it as a treat, and I’ve been having a lot of fun. The first few ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  on open team positions at the bottom of the page. Everything written ... highlight who the professors are outside of MIT. And the videos are truly ... series and the experience of being on the TwT team, in the words of the Tea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  view of the lobby: Walk up the stairs from another entrance, and you enter the first of two exercise floors. There are cubbies on the right to ... Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  advancements, such as the first chemical synthesis of penicillin, the invention ... I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other ... to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... to the page. One instance of this happened in high school robotics ... to the lines that connected to it first. The bend of your leg changes

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... the tracks a couple of days later; sure enough, there was this: And

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  -focused credit limit for first year students. As of today, you (the person reading ... video of the lecture on this page. And here is the syllabus: I'm glad ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  .O.P. tomatoes were the first thing we saw. Like magic. ✨ I squished these whole ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  tracks. The IV in the back of my hand also left several blood vessels ... college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  tracks on the surface of the snow, bunnies probably thinking they ... of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  pretty big dent in the already-not-great on-time track record of the Zephyr ... (MBTA), which runs the Commuter Rail, owns much of the track it runs on ... ’m less than ten percent of the way through my journey, and the first hints

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  . The women's track team had a baking night where we made one of our ... that's just an effect from the hardened frosting!By the end of IAP, I ... an hour of free time between the end of a long run and a rehearsal

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011