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• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... month at MIT- IAP! If being relaxed and useless stresses you out, it

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... really want an unedited look at what life is like as an MIT student... here is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  're really good at shooting (we've won the national championship in pistol 2 of ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  't even be at MIT anymore. It's kind of curious how my last Leap Day was my ... . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 = 0, yr# mod 400 = 0 must also be true), we get one of these odd days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “ ... to those who challenge you at every step of the way but ultimately

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious when I say blogging has become one of the most important parts of my life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  watch yourself break." But I enjoy — of course I enjoy, at this place ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... .67 classes and a UROP all at once again (because come sophomore fall I’d take

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  libido. I'm asexual, but I still masturbate at a regular basis, and most of ... of pieces, delivered by individuals or small groups of actors, talking about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  number at random, and person #1 gets first pick of the rooms. Once they ... control their toy. At the first meeting of our advising seminar, we split ... amazing "Only at MIT" moment: Last night, a bunch of people from my floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  at which each ball can wiggle (and thus which wavelengths of light the ... spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of ... Mexicano. We joined the Arts Scholars at the end of our freshman year so we ... One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester, I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... face.     Pistol At MIT, we do a lot of things differently ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can ... Met and MoMA and devoured a ton of delicious food at the expense of my ... end. The day of, we got up at 5:30AM and wrapped around around 11pm — my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... committing. But because of how much we began looking at other schools by the ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the ... of the sophomore year designing the ring, which is unveiled at an event ... by the members of her class who cheered at the reveal of the all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... talk about basically anything relating to dorm life at MIT. I'm one of ... The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019