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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  hour by plane from Boston (granted, the plane ticket's kind of expensive ... , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... privately, but not by one person - it's a volunteer staff comprised mostly of ... answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  ) 8.01: Physics I (Classical Mechanics) Taught by one of many ... system. Becoming Digital, taught by Aden Evens, assistant professor of ... Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  project was up. This one was based off of the 1963 novel Cat's Cradle, by ... a visual representation of the MIT Media Lab (Building E-14) by Paloma ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... ’re reasonably inspired by anything else. For three hours we read and talk poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend ... upperclassmen band members. Until we got tired of walking, and a couple of these

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  improvement immediately." One of the last gifts to Col Wallen was presented by ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my ... has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  -derogating term used by people who care about EC politics a lot)! My job as one of ... semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  constricted greatly by where you live, because all of the dorms with dining ... are followed around by vague, shadowy silhouettes of impending doom ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... it's considered the definitive biography of Franklin's life. Everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  prestigious awards that a student-athlete can receive—won by the likes of ... famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  amazed by how considerate and caring all of the 8.021 staff were and it ... gotten stung by a bee. "I just didn't own a phone for a couple of years ... One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman ... uncanny intelligence of a mobile device. It's powered by Dust (and React ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... art experience of my life, topped only by that one time i tried to draw ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  exhaustion of seeing everyone around me already done with their classes. By ... am still haunted by vivid memories of the exodus, formed under a heavy ... a certain buoyancy into my steps which match my momentary lightness of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010