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• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  for censorship boxes.) I've also been interested in how we tell stories ... we wear and the things we use. In high school, I used to joke about how ... as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the ... Professor Maier, teaching is not a one-way street. I believe she thinks that she would have failed as an instructor if we are not able to contribute

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... perfectly matches what you would predict. So, now you know how to find a ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  the same man. Exercises in Style (60k words). I've written about this ... out? As engineers and designers, how can we do social good in the ... . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  read/time spent ratio as an 18 year old, I would read short novellas and ... ![/caption] Somewhere, deep inside me, I also had the desire to improve massively in art ... be an exercise in visual art and composition. But for me, it would also

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  Creating Video Games I used to play video games in middle school, but kind of lost interest in them when I got to high school. So, I never really ... was also a bit scared of these classes because I felt that I would feel

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... things. So I went with My Suitemate Linda, and we learned how to make

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief ... freshman advisors are your teachers! After Chemistry I'll just ask Patti how

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  - 45 minutes each in Workshops 1 and 2, where we would plan it out, and 1 ... film in was something I'll never forget. And I'll definitely never ... script is still in its early stages; even so, I'm so excited for its

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... in an MIT laboratory. Nobody knows how it was even physically ... both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment ... exposed had that effect. But I was in a rush when I moved out. Plus I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  feel free to post your interpretations in the comments. I would highly ... stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... members. However, I suppose you could try it and see how they respond. Tip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... , objectively, but for me it’s a big deal. I finally have HBO access. Another in-house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... a week in Niagara Falls. I enjoy spending time with my sisters, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  , or FR) NEVER TAKE THIS SEAT. I promise you the person in front of you ... . Usually I'd mention how you have to wait to get off the plane but this seat ... ;     Tune in later this week for a blog explaining why I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  In last week's blog entry Diversity or Merit? I included the ... air-quoting so hard I might sprain a knuckle) in their admissions ... decision we make. Some people would strike a slightly different balance in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have interviewed for MIT, and I wish them the best of luck and hope that they stay in ... existed when he arrived here four years ago. "In ninth grade, I only heard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009