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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... things a little differently. Here is this incredibly artful for those of ... start setting up camp, got a little more into the whole pirate mood than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  -taking fee. As we sat on the roof for about an hour, a sound crew set up for a ... pour concrete into its base. The tower actually ended up leaning even further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  search for truth or objective reality or illusion or whatever. two ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... brace myself for. everything comes close to evoking existential dread, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have ... MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... traditional Brazilian music arranged for the wind ensemble by some Swiss music

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or ... qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the game is [annotation note="it was released in 1997 for the playstation 1

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but ... “what’s happening this semester” post and explain what’s new for this year ... rolled down after each shot! I'm really excited for sectionals this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... reasons you have stayed at MIT?" Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid, for the ... weird and offbeat. As for why I'd have stayed...well, it's been tough (I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want ... shoulder was silver/purple/orange for a few weeks and so were my chair, hands ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... it was a general rule for precision shooting events that weapons be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years, grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  to never missing out on schoolwork despite not feeling up for it at ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ... throughout the semester - I’ll spare you the details, for now anyways. Instead

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... revolution. There are good reasons for the old system to be overhauled ... possible, allows for a personalized work path, and promotes innovation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  conferences for young entrepreneurs? Literally the night before Next Gen ... a conference for millennial entrepreneurs. It starts tomorrow and it ... I had to find somewhere close by. I ended up staying over with friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  since has been designated for the James ("Big Jimmy") E. Roberts, Sr ... community. John Jackson was the longtime cook for the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE ... kitchen where John Jackson had cooked for half a century suddenly went out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Corp, making textile inventions like a faulty needle sensor for knitting ... biomedical devices, solar devices, aids for the handicapped, industrial systems ... develop a plan for a stair-climbing wheelchair. Blanco submitted a design in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... community centre every weekend for whatever class I was doing that season

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022