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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... , and the day I feel like I need to lie about MIT is the day I'll start ... 'd want to work at MIT. The Institvte is a mental amusement park

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  up in and boarded a one-way flight to Boston. The rain was moody and ... : the first week of orientation is (almost) dedicated to REX, or Residence ... Next House had to offer, I decided to remain in my temporary dorm for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... 's no social pressure to talk in the UK. You can just vibe with the group ... fingertip, it soon came back to bite me in the behind when I realized I had to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be closer to the kinds of design one might see in Course 4, architecture (see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours ... awe that others in esp had the strength to write the announcement email

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  athletes who want to be recruited is to get in contact with the coaching ... court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... my freshman year, we finished 15th in the country, which is the highest

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the ... which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  are in most contexts taboo. The New York Times once hailed it as ... . Originally premiered in 1996, The Vagina Monologues remains perhaps the most ... Teaching Assistants The final shout-out in this post goes to my awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  mailing lists, there is a catch in that you have to write a color at the end ... sororities with horror movies, so it's nice to see them in a different, MUCH ... the most confusing, funny, or [annotation note="anything is an adjective

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

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  post is NOT, in fact, about aliens: Bell's "noise" turned out to mark the ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  the most non-linear path I could find on Canva): Somewhere in there ... . In the fall of 2024, no longer able to produce thoroughly researched ... , though, was art. And I loved it! In the midst of so much leaving my list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... uncannily rich in food metaphors, with perhaps the most famous example being ... doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  generally happy in the media lab: Har, har. Anyway, back to the matter at ... to learn to fly and is looking at taking pilot lessons over the summer ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011