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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  still stand by these statements (except, of course, "I've never been ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian Court!   We’re talking big, fluffy, ephemeral flakes of snow, not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  demonstrated. By flinging balls of snow at me :( And then he said those magic ... eternal nothingness, or got kicked down by a bunch of bored kids. Oh well ... Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  group of students jamming with guitars, passed by the MIT marching band ... coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... level of detail that exceeds what satellites can provide. Working with ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... with this little ditty, to the tune of Ed Helms's "Tyson's Tiger Song

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... is a Strange Place, a lecture given by MIT Physics Professor and Nobel ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  from two actual members of the MIT Class of 2010! Thanks for stopping by ... tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to ... powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his ... Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  cultural show put together by one of my favorite students (okay, I have many ... subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Class of 2009. Akash, Ben and I had lunch together, and while we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  school by what type of kids go there, of what academic abilities and ... accomplishements in life may be measured by the size of one's stock market portfolio ... untethered by any limitations of intellect. This is a reality and if someone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  “deferred” a decade ago in favor of MIT. Guided by a gut feeling, I ... -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... life. The film is oriented around this theme, demonstrated by the three

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id ... would be a one-time event because of the sheer scale and effort of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  entire week was dominated by the preparation of, implementation of, and ... anniversary tour and two Christmas concerts of questionable quality by a ... Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025