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• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  to babble incoherently and to hilarious effect. It's a useful skill ... Harvard to learn Swedish (with the sole intention of using it find a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... children is so rare on a college campus that it's refreshing to see them ... Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  , "The Man With The Screaming Brain," and what better place to premiere it ... her after every trip to Boston, and has found it almost impossible to ... green line to Haymarket and check it out at its original location (11 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won Nobel Prizes. This year's Chemistry Nobel Prize has gone to Yves Chauvin

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... the most of it while I still can, to take it moment by moment — and dare ... physically. I had intended to withdraw, but skated through it anyways. That

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... despising the class, purposely skipping classes and dropping it with ease, to ... ability to learn, no matter how difficult the content may seem, and it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an ... ISEF, then you can learn more about it and look for an affiliated fair in ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee ... couldn't build it, but I volunteered to provide the vocals, and so ... breakfast while rfong presents how to eat it; also, an Anastassia selfie of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  . Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of ... Providence. It was a bit hectic once I got to Boston because of all my luggage, but I somehow managed to make it alive. Mainly because there were people

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  and procrastinatory, I decided to tell myself I was going to do it and ... that I am too lazy to use <ul> and whatnot): -Talk to sponsor ... wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  have to do it in, what, half an hour? you can iron out all the surface ... 'd be more useful in actually deciding where you want to go, it's harder to get useful answers. what's the culture like? oh, it's great. it's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A ... . Spoiler alert: I found it. - This summer, I learned the secret to slowing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it ... officials have been slower to see it as a problem -- though, finally, that may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... ; can't be stressing about working out. I'll start tomorrow. On Jan 7, it ... . On April 19, it means:  Well I can't fit through my door but that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  students cry en masse, Your confidence, you will come to lament." It could ... problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you, exist only to tool*. *to tool: verb. When used by MIT students, means "to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everything to them. What's the point if it could be better? What can simply be ... physics major. Funnily enough, I didn't apply to MIT as physics, and it was ... 't going to go pre-med or do a PhD, bioengineering felt more useful as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Rambax and Galak Tika used to rehearse in Building N52 – a 10

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  descriptions, directions, ratings, and reservations. It can also let the user ... .* From my discussions with the group members, it was easy to see the mutual ... describes it, they expected to get back to campus and continue on with life

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best ... learned more of Newtonian Mechanics than I ever wanted to (I used to think ... the thief didn't have time to get a new lock for it so I just walked it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... can't find them in Germany). The general consensus was that it was ... ! It's hands-down the best calorie-per-dollar ratio you can find anywhere

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006