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• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the homeless shelter just in time. The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter is the ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  dances! All you have to do is move to the music." No. Not me. I'm the ... hips to the hokey-pokey. (he doesn't know this video is on the ... , and do my duty to the Lonely Island. Everybody in the place hit the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  different tools in the machine shop, we get to create our own Stirling Engine ... website: "Air in the engine is cyclically heated (by an alcohol burner) and expands to push the power piston (shown in blue) to the right. As the power

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  and pipe. This is my roommate Rob. He willingly accepted my plea to jump up for this photo. The things I get people to do for my blog. Today is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  Next Exec, which I think is probably bad form in regards to separating ... from all the other music I've been doing, which is mostly singing ... ="currently, the question is 'what is to be done?'"]a new question each week for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... our best to show you MIT. Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great ... distance of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Up To Snow Good PSA: IT'S SNOWING

  

  a storm is coming, are you listening in killian, the snow is glistening a wonderful fight our snowman's a sight walking in a winter wonderland

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... in the moment, because my life is full and exciting and takes up all my ... life, even if it encompasses so much right now. The truth is that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... communities in different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to ... ) I want to quote Mikey from his post announcing these prompts in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... instructor in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... enjoy the sunrise. Stick a colorful flower in your hair. Say hi to the ... . Swimming is fun and this is the perfect time to learn how to or to sharpen

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what put me ... clean water to over 3 million people. The organization that is really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me ... now, in the midst of flu season, I've been going to Athena clusters

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  addition to being a close friend, Angelica is one of the most earnest ... . To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... amuse me that the other fellow in my program is a certified body builder

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP ... project was creating a *moodboard* to determine the color scheme, which is a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... myself without the energy to stand up anymore and fell asleep at a table in ... Friday in working with my GEL team trying to solve different challenges in

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012