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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... brother, Max, in Brookgreen Gardens last Thanksgiving break. The pet rock ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  , where they are building a fort in the courtyard, paint murals on the walls ... liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... Native artifacts, but which in hindsight were just fragments of floor tiles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that ... captures my story the best. When he was young, he would buy shoes that were

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  in my senior year after my other friend group split. Ethan, who has ... my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it ... bed one bath apartment in San Francisco. Taking him around the city and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  -frosh and East Campus residents pitched in to build a tree-house-fort ... saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the ...  Anelise N. '19 November 1st is my January 1st by Erick P. '17 December 2015

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we ... we didn't use, but look really fancy is a pipe bender. In addition ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  build season for. See some of you in St Louis! ... in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually modeled after a legendary MIT class in mechanical engineering, 2.007, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  majoring in Course 4: Architecture at MIT (as you know, I eventually received my degree in Management Science). Famous architects like Holl get to ... completely new cities in China. Holl has begun talking about Simmons Hall

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort ... moved in there was only a hexagonal frame in the courtyard, and by the next afternoon they’ve put pillars and more stuff in the hexagonal frame

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  myself – to be able to move forward. Not to mention, St. Petersburg in ... "] my sketch of the gorgeous Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg, featuring ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  Program for a semester of study in the Cities in the 21st Century curriculum ... , highlighting differences in city design and planning between the two locales. While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you ... -qualified applicants, because we truly believe in you. And, in the process, we grew very ... choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor ... olive oil and then dip in plantain chip crush. Place on cookie pan covered in aluminum foil and bake on the top rack of oven for 10 - 15

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... with me in East Campus over the summer as well. But the first two weeks ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for registration between July 1st and July 30th. From HackMIT's website: "Hack ... .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  into fistfights in Matt's office.  Yet decide we must, and ... :  Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a ... the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012