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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . Breathlessly, I looked down: it floats! Like, on top of water and everything! And

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... of bed and into your desk early. Here’s an example plate: Lox on a ... in production (!!). Being on-call seemed like the equivalent of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  story of Japanese-American internment camps, and featured an entirely ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  about their projects: Matthew: One of my projects is focusing on the ... years, we can determine its axis of rotation! Some asteroids on our list ... while. i was working on reducing data to get light curves of Alinda, a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  ![/caption] Happy birthday Cyan! And reader, if you choose to take on the mantle of ... !!! (map details; strategies) Any player of the game will quickly pick up on ... overshot a log, tough luck. Map There are many interesting features of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  [/caption] The Wiki Game On top of that, I even found a site called The Wiki Game ... an article about automatic transmission and you click on a bunch of ... on the cover of Newsweek, and then it disappeared. Fun fact: I actually

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  posting on the [annotation note="the schedule board is a beautiful mess of ... created a playlist featuring songs like “I’ve Had the Time of my Life ... let us enforce curfew on staff with Nerf guns and alarm the rest of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  was also my first football game as a member of the world ... Engineers" on kazoo on the way down. The guy coming down from the fifth floor ... the entire show 30 minutes before the beginning of the game. In high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... Baal'? No thanks, I’ll be soaring on the wings of eagles, chief ... :45a AM on Tuesday. I woke up freaking out, I changed fast, woke up my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  comfiest (sp?) chairs on campus are in my very own place of employment. The ... the heck out of the way, and is the furthest place on campus from Burton ... one of their librarians the Friday before the Tuesday on which my 30

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  leagues based on their level of participation that week. The app awards ... essentially trash my previous technique and end up just spamming this feature on ... from a handful of lessons, allowing me to spam it on repeat without

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  went on an amazing boat cruise down the Charles River. Also, part of my FPOP was a Duck Tour which is basically a tour of Boston on a bus which ... day of my FPOP, we were placed into groups of three, given a manual on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... period of EXTREME STRESS, I finally submitted my application on Oct. 31 ... , right when the application came out I jumped on it and was like, “I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of ... looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... each other for a couple of months, but already we were well on our way to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on ... words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... those of you who are familiar with how saber fencing works, it’s very fast

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  It's that time of year again - SpringFest!  This past weekend was filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... concert, featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus! The opening act was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... to do very often." It's a speech written on the occasion of Schwartz ... impressive slate of visitors over the past year - Melis recently blogged about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the ... kind of (un)intentional(?) architectural feature that would make it ... was painted black with daisies on it"]create more of them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  , residing in a cabinet or on top of a fridge, looking down on us all with ... handful of third-party articles have featured the Milk, most describing the ... us.    The story of the Milk will live on, preserved as a Random

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022