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• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... sorts of crazy artifacts in his office and visiting him is always a treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  available degrees are Supply Chain Management, Principles of Manufacturing ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  another long night of hanging out with friends, I collapse in a wrinkled ... Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won ... should’ve been kinder and gentler to myself instead of intimidating myself out of things so much. I shouldn’t have felt guilty when I needed to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... eclectic assortment of MIT undergrad, two cats, and a brood of hens. Every

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... ’t sleep, but I am not one of those. None of my close friends are, and I

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  of free food? I'm excited. So much so that I'm running two East Campus events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we're Burton 1, the first floor of Burton Connor! We love the color blue, bones

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem ... proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National ... be one of many counselors who will supervise campers in August. “Kids

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  all the benfits of a major university. ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  really hanging out with them in about three years: my family moved out of ... over the speakers; each painting hanging on the wall of the staircase up ... . All around pika hang reminders of past lives: the murals washing over

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024