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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the ... allowed to use the ants living in East Campus. The worms looked really cool

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  decided that we wanted to associate service with arguably the most memorable ... earthquake in Japan. Theta Delta Chi Prior to the challenge, acting ... fraternity. "I wanted to change our cause to one that is closer to the hearts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  go to bed early. This is all pure speculation, of course. But in the ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I ... , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football ... to Mollie: In the interest of full disclosure, though, I should note ... come to the games and drink too much and then go do stupid things. But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  Overall and Most Creative. Certain floors in BC tend to be more gung ... victorious for the past several years, had the most entries in the competition ... 't be able to hold it for the next two years since Burton-Conner is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  , coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... I've been to. The third thing I noticed: everyone in the room seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  deeply-rooted familial ties found in Ethiopian culture to the many ... is to me.   (P.S. I wrote this on the plane initially, but we ... was taken near the marina in the Gothic Quarter. Excited to write about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  What is the particle in a box model? How to make ice cream at home ... in? Fainting Goats Nomadic Cultures of the World How Tea is made Why ... Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  is what to say in their graduation speeches. When asked about the ... what they plan to major in this fall, the both said the same thing - math ... is talented in a different way," she said. "Some, like the Burfields

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... shifting idea is starting right now in someone's room or the coffee table in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , to experience, "flow," or to be in the "zone." It is in these times ... is an opportunity for you to talk about your involvement in the things ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... organizer of AR in Action is John Werner, the former Head of Innovation and ... Media Lab's Emerging Worlds, Ideas in Action, and is the curator of TEDx

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  and is around to answer your questions as well, or a seminar, in which ... the program is based upon living in the same dorm as people who have the ... get to school, when everyone is looking around at the different dorms

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... 're really going to go far in life and have gorgeous kids and save the world ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007