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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  already somewhat lower than the number of hours I had to be in class, online ... , choosing two of three very good things is not the worst problem to have. I ... placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  [/caption] The edges of the block are unevenly sanded. They’re not sharp to touch ... ’t cut from a corner; there had to be some space behind where the cut began ... fixed it, but not to the extent I wanted to. I was mildly annoyed at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I ... , that said "YOU GOT THE GIG!" I simply did not believe it.  I was sitting ... necessary to post the cute caterpillar in order to perfectly emulate my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  ? The lack of privacy. Sometimes you just want to be alone. Also not being ... always appears to be! Do you think the show did a good job of capturing ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe ... ’m ready to stop focusing on how my community will no longer be living on our ... experience it all. I have no idea what the rest of the semester will be like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  . The summer was designed to be a "vacation," and anything you do aside ... store hired him to be a manager during the school year. Another chose to ... 't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  unfamiliar and exotic. She celebrates the ability to be fragile and exposed ... to fictitious worlds to come to terms with the fact that they are weak and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  Memorial. The stand will be run by Russo's, the Watertown-based retailer that ... likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  's programs in those areas and would MIT not be the right place for me if I ... , science, and math to students, and more. You also ask, "would MIT not be the right place for me if I decide to not major in science?" This was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  then it does all the work while we're off not being on the computer. Ok ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light ... need to put it on the internet I head to our special MIT Admissions login

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  read a book about Whitney (they did not seem to be terribly pleased with ... chose the rosewater ice cream. Today, I head down to San Diego; it will ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the

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

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the recipient why they received the email, to help them distinguish desired email from spam. The footer to that email, as all emails before it, should

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to earn money ... soon as possible, start your own life, and not be told when to go to bed and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  being. And the road has not always been smooth; I've been faced with ... run, college will only be as rewarding as you are prepared to let it be ... insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  minutes.   Let the soup cool enough that it is safe to handle. Food process ... cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste ... whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  world is a double-edged sword. You get to be around some of the most ... , I'm going to be nice here and just tell you the thesis of this post: a ... matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... This Sunday is the infamous East Side Party, which is open to the MIT ... next week can be found in the Daily Confusion, which is actually just a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  . A lot of the things I'm taking will be highly relevant to all the ... into it. Not only do you have to know the facts, you also have to know a ... , however, is attributed not so much to the fact that the course is the most

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a ... science. Mine was the type of school in which women were encouraged to take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005