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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  up Massachusetts Avenue to see just how far it goes into Boston. Turns ... . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... !) Just do it later by The Oatmeal How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  that I could go from here to 3rd overall, but I did much better in the ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in ... Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  brothers from Des Moines that went from not knowing how to cook to starting a ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously ... to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... 'd ever want to know to be neatly packaged in an organized, clearly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• 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 / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -2016 season, feel free to get in touch with our assistant coach, Kayleigh Durm ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... akin to “thou” and “wherefore art”, except I’m not even that fluent in ... forward to reading my first-ever complete(ish) novel in Chinese (starting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and ... you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  vibrant with life. Even in the rainforest, of course, you don’t get to ... Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied ... was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... in Science at MIT was finally released to the public in 1999 (referred

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  and defenseless as it could get. Weeping because in this incredibly ... . Classmates, friends, colleagues came together to offer comfort in their ... begin to rush over. I tell them not to worry about it, to get on with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... did you decide to major in music? Jenn: I decided to double major ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... -dance communication-thingy/self-procreation/photosynthesis ritual to call in the alien

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  anyone who has any connection with MIT and want to stay in touch with other ... to hear about how our year aboard has been going so far. Some pictures ... that come with being in a foreign country, like not knowing which way to

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008