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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about ... As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  virtual interactions. I can text one or two people regularly and be content ... so much joy to my day. Most days I ended up reaching out to people and ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  : calligraphy. I talked about this in an earlier post, where you can read me ... . Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... someone, somewhere, out there, who is better. Chesterton, as in "Chesterton

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  can still check out research in Course 24-2 (a program in Language and ...  made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... .org/blogs/entry/thirteen-things-to-do-over-iap-1-5), I spent the first half of IAP in sunny California where 50 ... , I was rather less prepared for the return trip. I flew back in jeans

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  ’t know that most Jewish music was in Hebrew or Yiddish, and I didn ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group ... in high school and still remember most of the material, you can

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  was out there attempting to take pictures at 5AM, while most of you, I ... ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case you can't tell, that inscription says "MIT Fire Department". The CPs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... she saw me wearing the ring in the wild (and I gasped in despair at how ... the Brass Rat to the Super Bowl ring still out there?) But I long ago

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don ... circumstances, the right attitude. An example. In High School, I was the captain

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  from the chart, I'm fairly confident that this won't actually pan out. In ... :("]few[/annotation] glaciers left in the park. All the blog posts I read ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a ... plates, and some desk organizers. I'd also recommend checking out Cam's old ... resume). I personally just picked out a two hour thing on time management

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... gaming has led to an even further increase in nerdiness. Sometimes I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  can doodle aimlessly in the corner and then angrily scribble out the bad ... the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... searching through thousands upon thousands of e-mails in Webmail (can you tell

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  , that's so hardcore, I'd never be able to figure out how to do that." And ... , I applied for an undergraduate research position in the Media Lab. As ... it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  out of bed with it. And in my hoodie and slippers, I set out towards the ... later and later. I wake up just in time to catch breakfast, which closes ... minutes, 29 seconds Sometimes, I know that I can make it if only I walk fast

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... i’d ever heard, and the chords in the climax of permanent some three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... GIRs, and I would never have to take another physics class in my life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008