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• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  started this summer while in Brazil. When I first got to MIT, I largely ... hopefully green and equitable), and how to develop a political program that ... of "Visual search" from psychology to understand how our experiences

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  great!  If you ignore the average 1.5 hour each way commute I have to ... . I went to the admitted students BBQ in Portland a couple weeks ago and ... The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case ... ...(I'm with Jeremy, my travel buddy to Mathcamp that year. He's also in MIT ... rivers to train for emergencies in inland bodies of water (for example, if

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how ... would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my ... good to breathe. As much as I love MIT, it was a relief to get away. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... -N-Out double-double, Tasty Burger would fall in the 4 to 4.5 range. In any case ... married to them (or be successful and wealthy in life, depending on which

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... 't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that ... of notes to self. And with that, I will try to get those 7 hours of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... , though. Few high school students have access to courses in upper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  turns entertaining my little brother, and somehow, I managed to get him to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... ’t even remember how they’re related to us anymore. I’m just going to refer

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  first lesson in the lab was learning how to use a pipette, and literally ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... it will converge to midnight in approximately June 2012.....hey! That ... time to do it I'm pretty hosed (I leave exactly how hosed as an exercise

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in ... and pepper to taste 1. Wash the rice once with cold water, and place in ... My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... waves traveled through the wires to create mechanical waves in the speaker

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the ... know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... your friends, on your professors, on the random people you sit next to in ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... movements to get a tiny Cessna to move. These controls… were amazingly ... be going about 145 knots to land in this plane". Lower the landing gear

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  late to find an internship in another country right now, which is cool ... cabin to stay in, but, you know, we're not losers. I am, however, kind of ... , I'm pretty sure I know where I left it in the cabin, so I just have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007