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• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... more times before the end of the program. By the fourth time, I could

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  have always loved just spending a bunch of time hanging out with friends and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to ... of summer Cambridge activities. Now, like everything else, these have ... that they can shout dinosaur facts at me with the help of some CADding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  forthcoming cycle. There's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... make sure everything is done on time!). As you may know, we have our own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on participation, and the remaining 5% on some in-class assignment that is supposedly ... extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  Sandwich. They are new on the MIT scene but their sound is phenomenal ... Every semester, one of the male living groups on campus, Chocolate City ...   Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  should get on that. Anyway, the point of this entry is the tables. I just ... minutes. We decided we needed more toys. So we called on Snively, of course ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  synaptic cleft and bind to receptors on the outside of the postsynaptic ... away from a new therapy. As long as it's related to the workings of ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  fluidity club on campus! Fun Fact: The exec people of all these four clubs ... agenda on all of campus. (*jk we're working real quick) Fun Fact 2: We all ... are not all of them, but the ones I am involved in/plan on attending

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... , as I met a number of people on the train and joined passengers in ... of the remainder of the month. On January 8, all of us, plus several

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  roller on my IT band, psoas muscle, and back is now part of my nightly ... sanrio (I’m on a lot of painkillers)[/caption] Many stomach meds and ... graduated, starting a new job at a nonprofit. At the end of every work day

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... first time on campus, come for a tour of campus! Us tour guides will be ... take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure. Actually, I knew a lot of people who would be there, so I figured I'd stop by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  to be on-location in New York City with an independent movie directed ... of 2013, who is on the left. We are pictured in Ladakh, India. We are ... picture of me taken on June 22, 2009 at the top of Echo Mountain near

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  -that-be on MIT blogs). --- This is a simple story of three guys, how they met ... , if you entered before 2007, you had the option of taking 270 units on ... spurred on by this stupid idea of graduating each with two diplomas, we went

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In ... -president of WiEECS at the start of 2021, while I was still on my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new ... MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary ... Experiment group (STrIDE). Using the same technology that's found on autonomous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017