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• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  and overhear a young man teaching a for-credit seminar on poverty and ... graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  the men). Let's take a closer look at a few departments. Nationally ... say that there isn't room for improvement at MIT and in the greater ... Engineering), and as far as I can tell, they were all quite happy with their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  , and it's truly worth fully soaking in for at least a couple months. For ... how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. Like a preteen boy with more bacne

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... which he just plays random notes for a whole minute, and then ends on a ... project was due that I sucked at writing for strings, I took a closer look

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  and quirky people you will ever know- yes. For learning how to live a ... in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  healthy, even. It’s also good for your eyes, and a 2016 study found that ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one fateful night during a Phineas and Ferb marathon. What exactly is cream soda

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  .03 (Differential Equations) and 18.032 (also Differential Equations, but with a more ... . A lot of my confidence has come with age and being able to not care if ... there, and I realized that if I actually pursued a career in this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  with friends I hadn’t seen for months and pig out on foods I had been ... school year. Over IAP I was in the EMT class for 9 hours a day and now ... Finals ended over a month ago, so quite frankly, I have no excuse for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story installation appeared on the bridge between buildings 56 and 18. For three days, it ... @ MIT (with links to images): 12/3: Swinging Piñatas 11/22: Up the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... , and homework is often weighted equally with exams. As a whole, homework ... section of a textbook for my math seminar, and it was all about applying the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... apartments across from me draw their curtains and turn off their lights (with ... interpreter training system for Mandarin speakers, and help more critical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  Kahoot for the students and wrote a page of u-substitution problems for ... played a game with some seventh graders in an English class and I had a ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  . A few weeks ago, I realized that the word I was looking for was ... -so-secret love for the Internet. Things just happen so much faster online, with a ... was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the ... Uno's near Harvard. Here, I got into a heated debate with Arun '10 about

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  (you can RSVP at this link). Yesterday was a pretty good day. For most ... with some friends and students in the Concourse Program lounge in ... was seeking undergraduates with French proficiency to go on a two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  semester is this Friday, as is my last physics quiz and the due date for my ... From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a ... article mentioned, were situated on newspaper stands all over campus: And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... -by-trashcan. It depicts an insane freshman and is signed by the author, with a ... rushed to help by giving me a chance to guest blog for her, which is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007