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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... -bucket-list thing to do.  But, we also didn’t want to UROP just to UROP. We wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  like your dog answers your questions. Also your dog is harder to get ... American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap syllables between adjacent words, often to comedic effect. An inattentive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84 ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... had my umbrella in hand, poncho over my backpack. I was ready to conquer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  interested in us as students, and I want to get to know them more throughout ... friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well.  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  needed to renovate W1 just wasn't as easy to get our hands on. So the whole ... administration had plans to increase camaraderie among graduate dorms, to alleviate the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... —Electricity and Magnetism, with Theory.” When deciding to take the class, the “with

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  unmotivated. Career Fair lasts for three more hours -- all I'd have to go is get ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J ... model, so we got to go outside and take measurements under cloudy skies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• 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.

  

  's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on

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

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  applications, and knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take ... want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting ... , so this is my favorite way to order food. In addition to getting to ... deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... , and bears get really really fat.  [carousel image1="80642" image2

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  design class I took to get them printed. But given that there's only a semester left, I'm not sure if I want to go through the hassle of getting ... . Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022