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• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  college is quirky than by saying you live in a triangle? I had the room for ... MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... : I need to stop throwing all my clothes in the dryer. When I saw that a ... I can't sleep when I need to sleep in the furniture I need to sleep in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... was accepted to MIT in December, his mother told him it was the very ... bounced from home to home in the United States and Europe, as his father

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  -wheat bread. Just imagine the most natural way to eat all of the above in one ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... -white fat, an indulgent contrast to the sleek silky sheaths of leek in company

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The ... : Shar, friend in 5.112, leans over to say that their regular professor is ... . Shower time! Showers at Z-Center much nicer than at Next House. Note to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  's usefulness in action. But what's REALLY cool about the company is that it was ... . By the end of the night, we had people coming over to hang out in our ... Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is ... ,79163,79162,79161" caption="Here they are, in the flesh! Or in the avatar, anyway" /] Please ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  dessert in the North End, which is Boston's Italian district. We went to a ... my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... dessert at a cafe next to Mike's Pastries, which is probably the North End

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  . In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and ... to get the creative juices flowing, and in the real world it's really ... In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  asked us to perform some of Bach's greatest hits in class, mostly from the ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  experience, messing up is pretty much guaranteed. On the other hand, a 24-pack ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... like the eponymous song, So Much (for) Stardust[/caption] [caption id

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  a Toyota Corolla) and drive to my hotel. The hotel room I'm in is ... 't believe how much has happened in just the last 3 days, from Detroit, to ... block to the Michigan Theater, where our central meeting is to be held. It

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... through Minecraft WAIT IS THIS is this part of the…omg...im supposed to give ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, and then hit “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... 're not herded into giant classes like so many moo cows. According to the ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on ... that this is probably the most disturbing analogy I have ever penned ... detail, until we get to dinner. In short, the event was the world premiere

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I ... naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda available to student-kind: the friendly neighborhood vending machine. But

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... was first announced. In her first speech to the community, she said "I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... Truck Guy, much to the chagrin of my wife Steph C ’15). [carousel image1 ... in the snow during the eclipse leading up to totality, squinting up at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start this blog. She traveled to Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the tsunami that ... . Enough about me, though. The point is that I’d grown to be quite

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  ’s rights, and race relations. She plans to do the M.Phil. in development ... engineers to encode memory systems genetically to assist in the study and ... to Oxford University to read for a degree in the Philosophy, Politics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008