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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  Rupert's drop imaged with a polariscope. Looks pretty exotic (and delicious ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Engineering and Biology majors, along with his Biomedical Engineering minor, to create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D ... Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  . It turned out that the correct door had both an ID card swipe and a ... Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy ... 'm starting off with a huge, monolithic apology to John Curtice, mostly because

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Twitter for a few minutes. It is senior year, and I have gotten the art of ... ![/caption] 12:40 PM: Our meeting wraps up. I chat with my fellow SuperUROP for a ... and Recessions of the 21st Century." We talk for a little while about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  down to a reasonable set, then pick one and run with it. I picked grad ... , being so deeply engrossed in a topic. And I get to take this depth with me when I discuss science with the public. Last weekend, I gave a talk for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  Guatemala and Honduras. Meanwhile, workers advocating for a better wage may be ... applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been interrupted by a ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  . Step 2, get really excited and head back inside for my camera. Step 3 ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and ... end up being mashups of a bollywood song with an american pop song, and ... 3-6 people and we usually have a few per concert   ii. concert

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  Cormick have both kitchens and a dining hall. There are also dining halls in the ... , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier ... excited when you do psets with them. Monday night I visited Adelaide and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  awash with students bustling to and fro. floorpi feels like it’s a little ... writing problems for our national olympiad and hanging out with friends and ... , where i ate dinner with two friends. and then we walked to bso to watch a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ... them into conversation with contemporary technoscientific and artistic ... ’s physical site and work with the local community to build prototypes of their

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  bit of a follower. I accept that these rules exist for some reason and ... years do. It began with two packed suitcases and a backpack to move from ... lonely. For nearly all of my life I had been a content little loner, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  feeling of power in me, coupled with optimism and idealism for what could ... moment, and you have a recipe for some miserable MIT students. I thought ... to ensure a fair process for students who were being kicked out. And

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... interview somebody for a news story, we have to look at the entire situation ... – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  working without a break, and all that. He had his laptop with him, and the ... Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... help from the TAs and LAs. Unfortunately, for several hours there was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  with admitting both to other people and to myself when i am wrong about ... synthesis. it means you started with a thesis and explored an antithesis; the ... looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy ... some governmental history of a foreign country and put my own name down ... entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  concept that you've struggled with for a long time. B. You remember the ... elusive. (South for me in both cases.) C. A friend/family member threatens ... fostering a strong awareness of diverse cultures. And by diverse I mean both

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  make this a safe and enjoyable comic-viewing experience :) \ (Credit for ... then, haha) My experiments are working! And as a result, I'm about to ... my current streak of lab luck. After my blog last week, both Chris and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  . Sane people look at skiing, and they say: 'Wait a minute. I'm supposed to ... It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006