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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  meeting, and will try to answer all the questions I can. However, the ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... of MIT’s investments. Thankfully, activism will continue to be a ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  next one, which will feature the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity ... hands on some power tools- of the large variety. One of the principle machine shops on campus is Pappalardo Lab. This is the lab space used by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an ... , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the ... "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  : is this the best way to spend my time? Should I be doing something else ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... , Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah ... come to appreciate the small things and not be overwhelmed by the ... ! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Thanksgiving. The MIT pistol team has a reputation for not only being very good ... stopped them You will live to see another day PacMan In the end, I went ... turkeys. It's not to be missed. *For more information, please visit the MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  it will get cold soon. It’s Boston and you can always talk about the ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  't, go find one. He or she will remind you how exciting the world can be ... I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  internal conflict begins. I think, I will probably never have the chance to ... college, I didn’t think that I was cut out to be a research scientist. The ... letter in the Senate? Dan: No, but I would be happy to start one. Wait

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... . I knew that the environment would be really different--I'd be around ... be way too fatalistic. What I didn't fully recognize at the time was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking about reading The New Yorker so everybody knows I'm an intellectual ... the idea of only being in four classes, or forty-eight units, when

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  admirably ambitious - it was a pleasure to meet you :) The RA telethon will ... over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu: the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  exactly what he said (there will be videos online later), but I remember how ... I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  the meatballs would be more appropriate." So, an entire day of simmering ... on Earth." But tomorrow I will not forget to go to the MIT Integration ... DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  . Except it’ll be worse, because everyone will disperse everywhere instead of ... A [annotation note="at the time of writing"]few days ago ... think about just how disconnected I am from people at home—some of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... be my [annotation note="familiar readers of my blogs will realise that ... will have read the synopsis already (oops admitting to a cardinal sin

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  interesting to be learning a language that's so different from the ones I ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  would be the first of two trips to the ER.   V. 3.091  I think I ... 'm willing to disclose on the internet. Happy cleaning!       ... about my UROP. By the time I finished, I decided to not post them. As is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... will say something like, "It was good! No calls, though. Pretty ... the doorstep of my dorm, where the other two EMTs on shift kindly picked

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010