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• 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 / 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
• 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 / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of ... offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus ... In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early ... on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  such a close scale before, so none of me knew how to react. My head was ... to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally ... In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also unluckily for me, everyone seemed to be holding a copy of The Tech on Tuesday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  very bad about this because part of my job as a 6.005 TA is to make sure ... them. Exam grading, which I couldn’t make it to because of lecture, is ... to the MFA. 11:25 am: I get bored of Stata and decide to move to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view all of this random-fact-learning as somewhat productive c: To be clear

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your ... inconvenience that is very specific to our room since we live on the wrong side of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in ... talking to people bc what else is there to do now Eat a crap ton of ice ... Afeefah Will Try To Read This Summer The Secret Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... ? Also, all the captions to all the pictures of it showing up online and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009