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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2.671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with ... the motor they had chosen was too weak. They would never be able to push

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own ... Cooper's Visible Language workshop, which was exploring how the computer ... 's exploration of how computers can profoundly change learning. As the Media

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a ... circle really is a lot larger than I often perceive it to be. I will NEVER fully understand what other people are going through, but I sure can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... Lobdell also took some great pictures that night, but I can't share them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  academic question, and then - "So I'm curious...how does being such a rich ... today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him ... to Kresge Auditorium opened half an hour earlier. When I wandered into

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... , how you relate to peers and teachers. Then, I read the secondary school ... it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  of logistical issues like housing, etc. So how do I go about finding a ... So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  . They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to agree, especially with this trip. Possible reasons why: 1. I'd never been ... So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  prefrosh. I’m curious to see how your view of me changes once I start talking ... ;   кошка кошка + кошка собака   I’ve decided to try an experiment: every two weeks I’ll post an informal blog post with a riddle or a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  being here is because i am qualified for it or how lucky i am. because ... 't spend much time the previous day doing construction. i didn't know how to explain how i felt, so i didn't. the rest of the day turned out okay, though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  ." What I ask myself now is, would I have not done the same for getting into any of those schools? I think I would have. It's college for goodness ... So the title is pretty obvious, I'm modeling this entry after Sam

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  recruiting visit, I loved how clean, new, and quiet it was. I thought each ... out in the lounge, and I thought that I would fit in well. I also knew a ... The summer before freshman year, I remember the struggle I had trying

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  Better Than I Thought It Would Be Bar-Be as the Lady with a Lot of Money ... before. I decided to do the same thing for all the movies/shows I've watched in 2023. Movies Favorite Movie That I Saw for the First Time This

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is ... she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  zonotope themselves. Notice how, when I drew the edges in this example, I ... -ruh-LEH-luh-paipd. I have been wrong forever."]parallelepiped.[/annotation] How many ... plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Robots What is a Narwhal? The Architectural styling of I. M. Pei How ... (any insight on topic)" to deliver a fantastic 5-minute class about how I. M. Pei's buildings could kill you. I got "The banana and how it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I ... common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed, unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking ... hub of Maine's South Coast region. I was in Maine for three days, so I thought I could split my experiences across three entries--kind of like "The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005