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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  my high school and had lunch with one of my teachers, who happens to be ... single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home. Today was my first day of work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch ... , students may apply to do a study abroad exchange with the Delft University of ... now -- thanks to the power of the Internet! -- I can answer. "Do you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... , a school reputed to have plenty of geeks to spare. Ankur, an alumnus ... of MIT one semester short of graduation to pursue acting. Based on his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  to hear as high school seniors. So, here is a part 2 post, kind of ... -production. These stages all have various aspects to them that require a wide range of ... we wanted to learn after seeing youtube clips of the storyboards

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  are wonderful resources, but it’s still hard to recoup after weeks of ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... of your dorm -- it's not so hard to find the way out from here Park ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like ... , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  ). At the end of the day, I was glad to call MIT my home (as I prefer MIT ... Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... should also click the links. If you want to see more of YQ’s paper art, you ... school required everyone to do some form of self-directed research project

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  associating myself with something I don't feel that connected to. I know both of ... addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... the best pieces of advice someone had given her was to take classes in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can ... of the Institute, tucked tightly into an unlit cannon about to launch ... dominating context of my tiny dorm room to provide mental contrast. An

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... faculty approached the Dean of Science Bob Birgeneau to express their ... to as Report from here on). It showed that women held only 8% of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know ... looking like the entire bottom half of his body fell off. So, I decided to ... attempt to rectify my wrongs of the first class (aka the Snowman

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in ... the back of the cabin to claim their spot on the giant 12-person loft in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... the standard sleep schedule of the past few semesters—2 AM to 10 AM, not ... , managing to nab a couple more photos of the early morning sun: [image

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... fondly to the days when O'Reilly's Programming Perl was one of my best ... this up to one of my housemates, Josh, who was on the winning 2003

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of ... answer:       I have been privileged to know and befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it ... to be done to inform that professor of their love. The class of 2010

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008