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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  much better place to buy cell phones or get service, just let me know and ... that when you come to MIT you'll be moving to a different area code and ... their own literature seems to admit that their coverage area is much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  insurance plan. So once more they sent me over to the Mass Eye and Ear (by cab ... nation, and I believe incoming (and prospective) students deserve to know ... opted to bet against long-tail probabilities and took the so-called High

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  rehearsal and class. The energy and eloquence that I bring to the stage as an ... needed. In rehearsals, I create the skeleton of a set and movement to ... the audience.      To do this, I must facilitate and create an

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  their research to MTL's industry sponsors like Lam Research and Global ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I ... ceremony (and dinner!) to begin. Be back in ~1 hour. Day 1, 9 PM Ok, so

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  her energy expended and nothing left but to give up and die, were we ... , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober ... artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  explained the rules to me very well, despite having played the game only once ... using powers to stop the invaders from colonizing and destroying the ... trying to play 2 low complexity spirits at once, which was definitely too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  created in phase I) of the project to set up today’s feedback meetings and ... . At some point I take a break to go to Shaw’s with Cory and we buy ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  hours after he learned about energy-storing inverse lakes, he and his ... and his entourage were about to leave, and all the obligatory pictures ... cool enough to go,” she said, “and I have some friends.” Maybe I should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  token of the ride that just added to the journey. Arrival and Walking ... . I now walked back through streets that were once unknown to me, and I ... weekends and actually experience all the great places New England has to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... would sprint to wherever they were and snap a candid picture of whatever

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  , asked if I wanted to buy anything from the table. I smiled back, and told ... , locked my door, and remembered to buy eggs. My mother is proud of me. It is ... : Much of my recovery involved being physically close to my family, and far

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about ... and find people to hang out with, or watch something on Netflix with my ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  living group--from the dorms to the FSILGs (Fraternities, Sororities and ... pancakes to feed you. 3:17 - 6:17 Pecker Board Game Night and Teach you ... Race to the Galaxy and help the Twilight Imperium crush the Resistance

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... experimental and theoretical research opportunities both available to undergrads ... summer, for me to build and test batteries that wouldn't explode or melt or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a ... ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street (we're going to the Bahamas this summer, and I needed a new bathing suit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds to create lesions (i.e. tissue damage) to the brain and observes the ... region, and which areas might be affected by it.) Once, she created a fearless bird that did not lose its motivation to sing, eat, and fly. She

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  to let me know. Or I could just smash the other one and buy some more ... and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also ... Beach, CA and had thus never seen ice before coming to MIT. Anyway, after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  . Sometimes, your energy is spent, and you need to be helped back to your feet ... - but when you come to college and create your new lifestyle and your new ... space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011