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• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  way back to our dorm. And that's why a good day is often a day when, at ... that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel ... 18 is a fine number, especially when it counts years. It's an ... ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  that taking an hour out of the day to maintain a good level of physical ... activities, and it is because of this that the NROTC program doesn't overwhelm ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3 ... conversations, I found a group of people in Course 2 that I enjoyed talking to and ... Course I want to study the most for the next three years... but that's a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Institvte is that there are so many people who are passionate about the most ... , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... IAP, check out my entry from last year. As Bryan wrote, there is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2030, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some wonderful students. The

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  something that spoke to me. The last few days, I've been a little sad. I ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from ... was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  MIT, the more I was certain that MIT is the perfect fit for me. This ... that I would have the opportunity to partake in research at MIT was exciting. I toured the actual laboratory, how cool is that? I even got all of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  and pay, where Google was the end goal that I failed to reach. It took a long time for me to realize that jobs are jobs at the end of the day ... initially really hesitant and afraid to live in the house, it ended up being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Food No Context blogging no context

  

  10:00AM bottle of soylent on the go for breakfast.   12:59PM free lunch after accidentally walking into a Joi Ito (Director of the MIT Media Lab) talk at the Martin Trust Center.   1:08PM our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 27, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  the view and instead had to lock in on my final projects. However, in a ... overcommitting to a project and biting off more than I can chew. That’s right, I ... immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  , and crossed the St. Lawrence more than a few times. ;-) Quebec City is ... -- the difference in total time between air and rail is only a couple of ... center of the city, right where I want to be. There's so much waiting and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was ... the green team and their slingshot that triumphed. Thanks to my ... each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons ... place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  Every year it happens and every year there is sadness. Please don ... promise that attacking people is not going to help. Funnel your energy into ... , because everybody hates that guy. Also, I say this twice a year, and it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the ... STEM occupations - and if you think about it, Boston is right across the ... geeky awesome? There must be something in the water. That might also

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  , which is hype. The FLC is structured to provide experiences that are more ... /lectures we have planned and know that I'm going to learn a lot through it! Work ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

   Chris M. led the winning Pink Team and took a leave from MIT to become the ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity ... From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  the suburbia that is kirkland, because i think it would've been a lot more fun, and there would have been more things to do."]i thought a lot ... liked nyc, and i'd want to live there. boston is okay and cute. my mind

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  was nice, and the jacket in that material was also pretty hot. But Heidi ... way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody ... to say that. It's true! But upon further inspection this evening, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006