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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... asked him, please, to tell me how to be a writer, the good kind, a serious ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working ... bridge and design different structural options. She also learned how to use ... sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... , hang on to the handlebars, and meet the blast of wind in your face head

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... to take a toll on my ability to think outside the box. How I see it, is ... toxins and animals in the ocean you are farrrrr less likely to jump in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle ... and trying to figure out exactly how Jackson flung his paint. Every once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed over to the hack, which had been put on the "Dot" in front of the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from ... wanted to do... with a little more science thrown in. I now get to study ... 's definitely not as hick as it gets, I've gotten stuck behind tractors driving to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  (because my classes started so late), haha, but I went to sleep earlier in ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... return to MIT. I'm living in Baker this summer, in a room with really poor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of ... perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  accelerator called Bolt. They also get a chance to explore the city of Boston ... took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design ... participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it ... Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a ... then it's not to be missed! Oooh, you can also get a lot of Starbucks and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  . I've basically been trying to edge in enough structure this month to ... took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... to be up to finish homework and go to class at 10AM seems to get me out

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get the score report in two months.) In other news, I got this email from ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  didn't get the email or lost it, let me know in the comments (leave your email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and ... ! In the mean time, the Admissions committee continues to work towards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  made that year, and how they continue to affect my life today. Without a ... freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one ... updating this later tonight. In the meantime, I would love to hear questions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008