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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  that I was truly headed to college. Panic. Decide that the best way ... After getting the chicks, my parents set to work building a pretty massive ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... do with the force gauge involves measuring the strength of your bicep ... their own experiment. Pall and I are convinced we had the best setup for

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  paraded their airplane into the hangar, it was common to overhear good ... , and compliments about everything from the landing gear design to the paint job. Sometimes people get enthusiastic and want to touch each others

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... , would provide invaluable clues for developing new ways to diagnose, treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number ... what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the images was captioned "ThinkGeek to the rescue:" ThinkGeek provides Pluto

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... getting myself to write a novel than read one. Which brings me to the next ... soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  the kitchen to get ingredients for a smoothie. I pulled the fridge door ... the way my room is set up is that I can't open my window because the ... my loft was a way for me to get more natural light. A few minutes later

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the ... of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the ... today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  't really have time to study for. The website we were taking the quiz on ... forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... breakfast sandwich and run across campus to the Koch Institute. I stepped

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to ... WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready ... and math levels are encouraged to participate. This year the date is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest ... ” “My feelings told me love is real, but feelings known to get you killed

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  struggling to succeed?  Is it worth it to walk all the way to Simmons for ... go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... on the green line at Fenway but am I supposed to? What's the best

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  than the usual complement in any given limb. [this is a villain, by the ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ... ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection ... applications this year, both record highs. It is shaping up to be an extremely ... to find room for all of the many, many terrific applicants. But it also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  ; 4. The food is terrible   5. So bored. Bring art to play with ... I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  and made the connection, we decided to give your seat away... Oops, I ... -offer discounted hotel room when this whole mess is your fault. (And don't blame the ... forward them to airline CEOs (or whoever the correct contact person is.) And

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  hard to improve the world (said grad student was probably one of best ... ’t really believe in obligation to the past, especially because obligation is ... wants to help others, and what i really want is a way of satisfying both

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022