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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  interesting tangent: Community. What is a community? This is probably the most ... to ask yourself what your community is, and how you fit in it. When ... you have to find communities yourself. Last year, I lived in the lovely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... design”, the advice of someone who just happened to be hanging out in the ... challenging and that in itself is worth celebrating. So here’s to new hobbies

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... based in Madrid. They asked me to come visit them at the European Career ... shirt on over it. Was I supposed to tuck it in? What about the buttons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  -N-Out double-double, Tasty Burger would fall in the 4 to 4.5 range. In any case ... 11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... the burgers are tasty. > "The Fox" is playing on the speakers. Loudly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... why You mean so much to me. Poor soul, poor soul You’re often scorned ... , The realization that if we act now, we can contribute to the world. You

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  is the feeling I wanted to regain the most. As the spring season ... also continues. I hope that all the work I’ve put in will continue to pay ... and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head ... from most of my classes. It is an especially nice place to work and feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  to change the world in the same breath. I’ve never met anyone who ... to be one of the most important sources of conflict. If his idea proves ... students to address some of the world’s most challenging problems

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3 ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  electrodes for rat brains, performed the surgery to put the electrodes in, and ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the ... other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  's speech because you have too much homework to do. It was cool, though. The ... 'll already be in Germany. The German Requiem is a really amazing piece of ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk ... had lots of things i was looking forward to in the fall. that last post, i (don't) want the summer to end was, in my mind, the post that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  approach and to throw out what isn't working. This is the most important part ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second ... spending much later at an ungodly hour of the night. To me, this also

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  -- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the ... . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture ... "pranks" I'm not sure how much I agree with the statement that hacks at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  introduced me to 30 cafes in the Greater Boston area, and since then, I ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to ... they fell in love with while growing up in Vietnam. The team is always

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... -world equivalent to an Athena cluster. The class is conducted as a discussion of film ... , who is one of the most enthusiastic lecturers I've ever had. If you join

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my ... maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... MIT's most innovative companies from HubSpot to Akamai to Harmonix, the makers of Guitar Hero, to Terrafugia, who are in the process of making

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  right. This is in direct contrast to most Easterners (especially those ... the set of lines is leading up due to the fact that most Asiatic scripts ... 1702, Bologna, Italy It's late in the afternoon, and the sunlight is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  students to pick whatever is the safest and most affordable option for them ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline ... concluded that our commitment to conducting college admissions in the public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020