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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... across the street to the new Brain and Cognitive Sciences building, which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  clumsy) and horseback riding, to meeting new friends and swimming in ... summer to interning with an aero-acoustics company in Auckland, New Zealand ... glider on the South Island for a week through Youth Glide New Zealand. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  friends in my community growing up, I hope I can be able to bring that new ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  afraid to not pursue things even in the face of your new friends telling ... Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it ... ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... nearly all of our new Bomber freshmen ended up in EC. there are now 18 of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  someone my age getting a new promotion, moving up in the world, and have a ... is working in New York, Gilbert dropped out and is working in New York ... three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in ... try something new, independence, collaboration, imagination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  new volunteers. In our junior year, we saw flyers in the museum for ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you ... some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  'm trying to be more involved in clubs and to meet new people. I also have ... same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... : design and manufacture many many yo-yos. We're in groups of 3-6, and we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  importantly I won’t be hanging out with my family in person :(( For those of us ... of friendship✨ and ✨the power of cook-for-yourself dorms✨! In fact ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  . I started seeing someone new in early January 2022, and a week or two ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... annual event which changes in shape and size every year, in part because it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  my new comic books. Alone in Space by Tillie Walden, whose motifs ... in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is ... fireside chat, I asked him what advice he has for MIT students in my position

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  you'll learn, stumble-upon and/or be run over by something new. While waiting in line for some iced tea this morning the two architecture students ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis ... MIT blogs, thanks in part to its posting on digg.com, where it received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  , Weird Al's new video has an MIT mention ("First in my class here at MIT ... very video unfriendly shirt in this vodcast! (you've been warned ... get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... 's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel, where he tests cyclists' positions and new ... his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York ... . Erik Demaine, turning in his hands an elaborately folded paper structure. The intricately pleated sail-like form swooshes gracefully in a compound

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you ... ’s okay, too. For now, remember that you're in the middle of the ride, and we’ll see you back here in March. So you're stuck in the middle of a

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025