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• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a ... presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for ... with *DELICIOUS* clam chowder at a *REALLY NICE* place, I had to leave my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to ... bloggers, blogs were...blogged to. Frosh: Are you excited to be a senior

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the ... she had been sitting. There was new grease to pick up, a new stench to ... bedbugs’ metallic hum flattened to a shrill, discordant buzz. In the kitchen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich ... back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  some hot sustenance from a Dunkin' Donuts and biked back to Boston as the ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  was pitched to me as a "cute place with baklava pancakes that have a ... , which were both delicious. According to my sister and a few other East ... I've never had Uyghur cuisine, so this was a great restaurant to order

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... MIT is a part of the same world it is disrupting. Whether you want to or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... ="113884" /] oh, to be a mere celebration of oneself. [carousel image1 ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... chooses a few promising ideas and starts working frantically to get a model ... have to build a full working prototype of your product in the span of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... the opportunities available to the student body as a whole. But now I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu ... Cam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can't beat that...that's the American Dream!" :) --- ps. I am going to be a ... DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010