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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  that the official requirement for a raft on the Charles after sundown is ... -sized hole for leg-dangling. The following evening, I hauled seacraft and ... pool for the standard grey PBIE-provided rafts. Something tells me that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT who perform (juggle? spin? What's the correct verb for this?) diabolo

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  Conner's Porter Room, but since the dorm is closed for renovations, it took ... either, so we looked at the Saturday of that weekend, but it was fully ... . We also asked about budgeting and how much we'd need for the drinks and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... the country I was seeing for the first time; the history became all too ... and conditioned to view the US in a specific way for so long that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... College Confidential: October 05, 2005 One of the most linked-to writings ... for the right reasons. Name, status, "brand" - these are not the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  horse or something? Well it turns out that the Spanish expression for this ... just gives me that more satisfied feeling. And it's usually for the ... translations, they have completely different contexts. For example, the "f word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  the collegiate success of students from small towns and rural communities.  While the initiative is new, the concern for these students is not ... Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... this tutorial for making stress balls using slime and fishnets. The

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... hard as it's made out to be. In fact, I wish I could take it for the next ... DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... -like-a-post-finals-limp-noodle lethargy aside with a song. Not just any song - a chemistry song. On the last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... I will be blogging essentially zero for the next 6 months.  I will ... philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . I hope Miles smiles for the camera soon." Thanks for thinking he ... requirements for 2007? The essay requirement for 06 were either essay a or essay ... send the transcript now (which will indicate "incomplete" for the EPGY

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually build according to LEGO instruction manuals; As soon as we completed the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  this year!). So, here it is, the official "I want to write a guest entry for the MIT blogs about my experience at CPW" rules. > You have to ... containing the HTML code for the entry. Bloggers will go through it and make

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for ... of course…… at least for the most part (awkward lol)). The thing about ... . Your heart starts to beat fast, you start looking around frantically for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... (Sean) and thank him for giving such a helpful presentation at the AAAS ... Capitol Building nearly made up for the fact that it was FREEZING outside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my ... ended, I was already preoccupied with plans for the next. I find it crazy ... essentially look through the listings and decide on three to apply to. If you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... does Pi Day look like at MIT? Do students eat pie? Do people recite the ... completely forgot. I’ve spent the whole day looking forward to Blood Moon Fest

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025