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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  have to sign up for Glass Lab offerings through a lottery. The lucky ones ... ! They belong to the Course 3 Laboratory for Microstructure Design (due to ... the heavy winds coming from the Charles River! The solution was to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  conclusion. For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding ... Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion ... 's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know ... foreign to the seventeenth century. But for Leibniz, the two were intimately ... generally considered inappropriate for women to dabble in issues of science

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  boarded the next shuttle to take our groceries back (thank you Fiona for ... Benson L. ‘27 to look for potentially useful items at the Swapfest (a ... Costco, and we had just missed the next shuttle back to campus. We

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  's super fun to hang out at and also makes for an unconventional date spot ... Cambridge—there are tons of places to check out. The Gold Star Mothers Park ... flower garden is incredible to walk through. This place is ideal for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... 'll get tons of opportunities to travel and see other cultures and maybe even some wild animals. It all sounds really fantastic to me. But for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  been so thrilled to haul a heavy backpack through an airport; at least my ... Airport customs for something like an hour (can someone please explain to me ... 've been traveling for 16 hours. I credit my consciousness to the hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... bags to my place tomorrow. My Molchat Doma shirt had been worn for over ... places back home. I hadn’t expected to taste that for months. [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... your commitments. It seems weird to think that, for some students here ... dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  was not founded by John Harvard. He just donated a ton of money to the ... was a ton of food involved in this FPOP and we got to eat at Legal Sea ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... premed heavy. If there's any place at MIT you'd expect to be cutthroat, it ... that made them strong candidates for admission. Well, you don't have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  jammed up today, and it would be hard for us to meet up. Can we meet Friday ... 's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... awesome '07s, like Andrea (whom I forgot to congratulate for being one of ... beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  go to Harvard Med, and I'm not even premed. But never fear (?), for I ... 'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our ... accessible for the low, low price of $15 via the Fung Wah bus. As a consolation

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  chance to go to games one and two in Chicago this past weekend with my ... and haven't won a World Series since 1917 so I figured I had to take ... have been going to White Sox games since I was four years old and have a

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  make plans to leave campus. Fortunately for me, music is just a floor ... sort of pleasure listening to heavy punk rock loudly and imagining a ... When it comes to Boston’s music scene, it certainly isn’t lacking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... ://youtu.be/nLSaCFlXn-g (might want to turn on english subtitles for this) In short, the film ... to make uncontrollable noises and movement. For a career as speech

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025