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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... year like I was last year, I am looking forward to helping out with rush ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  While bloggers Jess, Paul, and Snively will be listening to President ... President is expected to begin his remarks around 12:30pm Eastern time. You ... concentrators promise to reduce the cost of solar electricity because they use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core ... blow pipe during Roman times, to the modern industrial Pilkington process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... that ability to convey lots of meaning very succinctly is vital in any

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  . Then, using some nifty image processing, it allows you to remove that ... off, Allan Add Project Naptha to Chrome here. For demos and backstory

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even planning each meal down to the ingredient – until one big question remained: Who would do the grueling five-hour drive from Boston to Maine

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a ... gremlin brain was endlessly fascinated by it. I dragged my family to see the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... , doing so much. if i began to write everything that needed to be done, it ... trips to the embassy and the photo booth and the vaccination centers and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never ... with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... looked like. For 2016, I wanted to really push for change. I decided I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... gone (they host one every year), so I didn’t really know what to expect ... trek over to Walker Memorial where the event was to be held was fraught

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  people out to Rumney, New Hampshire.  We were all extremely excited for this last minute opportunity to relax and have some fun climbing, hiking ... , and then hike the Franconia Ridge over night to watch the sunrise from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... like "Guys we should go to Montreal". It happens. What follows are the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... to discover yesterday afternoon. You see, my laptop has a removable ... off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out ... , where we had to decide exactly where to give our free concert to celebrate ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005