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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an ... -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  left, and I still needed to use a drill. So I cut out the floor symbols ... ’ve played dozens of rounds, it’s 3 AM, and people need to sleep. Maybe it ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... plans the prom and the homecoming dance (that's about what mine did). Once you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  beautiful, so we decided to spend much of this day outdoors and soak it all in ... . We needed to take an actual break. Instead of doing many things, we ... _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  just one) and the need to stagger the 8-9 groups per lab period that will ... introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to ... Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  and a much-needed refresh before returning to campus to start the ... finished redecorating my dorm room to constantly remind me of my ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  car. But in a lot of ways, not much changed. It’s just another place to ... live where we live? What does it mean to live? Alan: Henry's answer made ... mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... cause me to be instantly rejected from MIT, I calmed down slightly, went ... , impatient for decisions, reluctant to do my other apps, doubtful of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  out to be Tostitos chips and salsa and a Toblerone bar. Once I got back ... letting my voice crack and break as much as it wanted to. When "Class of ... 't require me to stare at my computer for once. I took yet another nap, went to

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

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... world to be a better place. As it turns out those things are much, much harder to measure. Does this mean that our process is no better than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  to the trail we needed to follow to get to Nancy Cascades. We made ... though or how much further we had to go, but we did feel a bit better that ... people out to Rumney, New Hampshire.  We were all extremely excited for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  first, taking these classes has provided me with the much needed ... think once I get into classes that are relevant to my actual major," one ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  . Fact: I don't need to know what that *something* is yet. These facts are ... regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it ... My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  Friday by 11:59:59 PM. I love assignments due by email. :-) I still need to ... !) French exam, but that doesn't mean I need to wake up any earlier than 11 ... that the current structure of required/core classes leaves much to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  school teacher once told me that it was important “always to find [one ... adorable.  The sun has pretty much set, so I'll wrap up here. Thank you to ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer club sports?

  competitions, and some clubs have sent athletes to compete on the international ... have numerous accomplishments and aim to help each student improve in ... to everyone who fits within the eligibility guidelines. All skill
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... contains itself, which would have caused mild distress to Bertrand Russell. 3

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008