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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  acting and told him that he would be better off playing the accordion. “I ... enterprise… …and then Mr. Spock walked in, hair greyer and ears rounder than I ... Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... intricacies when we approached a couple heading in the opposite direction. I ... . Hello Susan Hockfield. There, I feel a little better now. In other news

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  school year, and I thought it would be interesting to hear their insight as ... more valuable than ever. In the MIT dorms,  you have your friends ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here ... many applicants, how many will be accepted, etc." I still haven't seen ... Students?" This is a question I answered in this post. The answer was: "We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  taught me how to use Github, which I'd always been so confused by in ... green hoodie (which I was super happy about, because I've really been in a ... got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  that will differentiate you is how hard you work." I left feeling ... made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... gentle reminder to myself. I've been deliriously happy at this school, in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... , thesis projects), but I also learned about architecture in general ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... until I move into Cambridge will quite possibly be the longest in my life ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... would.       Even if you don't know Holly, you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  activity and had probably never ran more than a mile in my life. Imagine how ... weather is conducive for an outside jog, I highly recommend morning runs in ... about now, right? How about forcefully regulating your heart rate by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  how you have those little oxygen masks that pop down from the ceiling in ... My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  so fast that I could barely keep them in the picture. Dan '08 presses ... !" Dan and I in fierce concentration, swords locked together, as Andrea '07 ... . If I had to describe pika, I would describe it as a liberal, hippie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... 's a neurologist at Mass General Hospital -- but I've learned so much in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... next spring to the Class of 2015:   i wrote this to the students in ... , robust, strengthened. As a grad student (and in the immediate afterward), I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018