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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January? How about combining a study-abroad experience with an internship in
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to ... or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  , etc. in our mouth. There are other ways to categorize. How can we tell ... ] barn - voiced [m] mango - nasal* [w] wipe - approximant* * we'll get to ... allows air to flow through the nose in order to produce the sound. If you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  up getting really excited. "How excited, Sam?" Really excited ... 're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and proofread what Sam had sent me. The last task on my list was to add in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  router to cut out pieces of the project, and tweaked some designs in ... parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8 ... Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . Maybe I need more people to talk to. In any case, that video is now ... some links to things I mentioned in the video! All about the James Webb ... /suggestions/lifehacks/ways-to-not-be-clueless-in-a-kitchen, leave those below in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It's raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway ... quesadillas. It today opened its fourth restaurant in Boston, in the MIT Student ... to campus, and that's exactly what happened. Last night, before the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get involved in the hacking community. All he wants to be is hardcore (there is ... to 4-6 shows for each production period. Anyone who has been in an MTG

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... over you // completely // talk to me now // make me believe in beauty now ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... to fill in my calendar. By the way, as promised, I have the answers to the places pictured in my last post. I admit some of the pictures

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... seen myself as the "frolicking in nature" type (due to my allergies, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got ... visit, there hadn't been anyone in the exhibit to guide us. This time ... the lives of the Blaschkas: how they got an initial 10-year contract to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  over the next couple of days. Moving on to rooms: I've been living in a ... corner of a wall. I know. Neha '10 wants me to write "ON PURPOSE" in ... decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023