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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build ... -bridge, this connection is dangerous, long, and unreliable. Some experts

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  University professor who just won the John Bates Clark medal, which is “awarded ... ; Amy Finkelstein, also of MIT, who does health economics; and University ... way, today is 70 degrees and absolutely gorgeous.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The ... one of America's top universities -- will compete for a full scholarship ... Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1988

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  fields and along beaches and amidst massive sequoias. Maybe the forgotten ... , everything felt fake. Days, hours, classes, and psets blended into a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  pick up my diploma, President Reif will say "wait, who are you? we don't have a diploma for you. do you even go here?" Or maybe in a little over

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... long are you in Ireland? — in Spanish, and I struggled to respond, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  shouldn’t have taken me that long to do so. The deans at S^3 understand that ... ’m considering taking 8.286 (The Early Universe) on listener status. The class is ... research on the expanding universe, and is only offered once every two years

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... developments in particle theory, baryogenesis, the inflationary universe model ... groups on a term-long project of their choice. Various written and oral

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... thing. They are wonderful people. The BU (Boston University) Astronomy ... going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... supervisors, all from different universities. I actually applied to this program ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... start on your degree. (For the vast majority, that’s not the case, and ... , and I never gave a passing thought to university admissions as a high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  points, yogurt shops get one cause that's easier, and long bus commutes get ... have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... California and it's 27 degrees right now and it's almost April. Not everything

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  coding we managed to get our gyro (which drifts 5 degrees) accurate to within .1 degrees. That made it a very useful tool. By three in the morning ... , in the long run it will be much more efficient and practical to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  degrees outside, and since I had sent an e-mail for my floor asking for ... wear my long-sleeve, heavy cotton, black, one-size-too-small floor shirt ... then I realized that 55 degrees was still pretty cold to be walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... boba after a rough night a labmate making me a seven hour long playlist ... you are loved, and that no matter what the universe tries to throw at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  events as they happen.” i’ve spent so long trying to understand my ... universally. being the founder of a payments company, regardless of how ... far too long. a specific and flawed answer gives me more to work with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  from Zoom University in a little under 3 weeks. Legend has it, when I ... "]busy as a bee,[/annotation]and so was my inbox. I had long feared the ... much. But with this one, it turned out to be a good laugh after a long

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high ... cool place. Some people ask me questions along the lines of, "how long

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  universal or inescapable. My own self-improvement efforts became a private ... away, I stayed away for a long time. It was a slow reintroduction. My ... consciously invoke the long-standing synecdoche, confusing middle-class women

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  's pretty long; feel free to skip to the sections you find interesting. also ... slowly, but surely, I was working towards completing my degrees. So, this ... particularly long Saturday, I dropped the class. I had gone five semesters

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022