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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  conversion of turkey offal to see how the project was coming along. Since Andy ... , and the CTO of a company... and that the purpose of this lunch was to ... before I started to talk. My part of the lunch did go pretty well... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had ... delicacy of mud to again show off our proud cultural heritage. The Europeans ... formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to ... of electronic mount with a few buttons close to his body. (it turns out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  what it means to be a pie, and all pies are merely shadows of its perfect ... ’s a huge crowd of people bustling about—each one trying to catch the attention of the frazzled shopkeeper to put in their order. And it turns out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... -formulated opinion articles, and no shortage of reporters willing to cover just about ... website yields a transcript of Muhammad Yunus' insightful and conscientious

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  of the labs to build submarine robots from spare parts. I had fun and ... extended to pubs and clubs, as in the US, forcing us all to abstain or break ... it to forget about the rest of the week. Of course, young Americans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... helpful and comforting to see so much of MIT come together in firm ... yesterday afternoon: To the members of the MIT community, First, an update

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  conglomerates (PRO) Efforts by the government to regulate content of social ... storyboards are welcome. Special attention to questions of gender, race ... class also has us read a variety of different comic books to help us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  meet people in all sorts of majors, wanting to do all sorts of things ... events to your Google Calendar through tinyurl.com/rushwilg ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... have to be accepting of who I once was as much as who I am. I signed up ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  ’s ready to welcome the Queen of England. Well, probably not, but I think if ... in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore ... , I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out ... best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  : that's one of baker's best assets Diana: yup Diana: i can't wait to ... 've got a lot of work to do on their name Bryan: not quite hot as 007 Diana ... was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  regret my choice of footwear (slides). i start to wonder if anything has ... freshman year. that person can only staple in groups of up to four people ... students. the discussion of how to create housing groups was an anxiety

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  product, and proceed to spend every waking hour of their lives (it seems ... have to build a full working prototype of your product in the span of a ... methods, but when we got down to our 2 final ideas they were a Lazy Susan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... to privacy," said one Sox official. "Most of our pitchers go there at ... practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... ? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a ... you to function. Have you heard of Parkinson’s Disease? The condition is ... particles in my left pinky toe. All the particles of a star about to go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina ... the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014