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• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... really mean? Everywhere you look you see the word "community" casually ... clearly out of bounds, you did not fall for the Jedi mind tricks. In fact

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... . And then occasionally, for a real thrill, we'd go watch the B ... I knew about the "Miracle on Ice" but hockey was for Canadians

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... . “This line is for the Melancholia film screening. It’s by ... , Antichrist) based the idea for his newest movie from a depressive episode he

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  group processes…The description for a good leader can go on and on, but in ... apple picking, go out for an outrageous dinner, the possibilities are ... serving as a source of wisdom for the young and impressionable

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing ... . The idea for today was to push off the dock, sail about halfway across ... for it. I pulled the rudder towards myself, and the boat turned around

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  lot of the people reading these blogs look to us bloggers for wisdom ... villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... seeing this scene for the first time when I was much younger and not

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... similarly with actual historic events, except for the fact that this world ... feeling of crushing, immense gratitude for the opportunity to learn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  foreigner looking for an authentic Korean experience. We laid inside the ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can ... story. (Photo credit: Woohae Cho for the International Herald Tribune

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  . Disillusioned and concerned for my lip health, I started looking for other sources ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  . (This could explain why the girl studying in the cubicle next to me looks ... decide to go to the student center for breakfast because every other ... Verde's, the small grocery store on campus, and I go for Anna's. On four hours of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For the third time in four years I found myself in the greater Boston ... there for similar reasons and generated this beauty. Looking back at it ... wife back in March, and with me having the kiddos for Fall Break (it's a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  looking into the possibility of working at an institute for blind students ... real feel for academic culture in India. The freedom to pursue topics ... . Thank you again, MIT-India, for this wonderful opportunity. I look forward

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like ... notebook for what it’s intended for before worrying about how nice it looks ... , because it lets me refer back to pages for notes I took on the same subject

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  mandate expansively. In the main, we are looking for bloggers with good ... For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... advise creative projects in the office and serve as a touchstone for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  imposed; for instance the public transport doesn’t run on Shabbat ... helped to recreate a calibration program for capturing color images. The ... field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  ! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart ... featuring stories that capture and communicate the richness and diversity of the MIT experience. Subject matter will range from the arts, research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  systems are found in binary star systems, so they looked for eclipsing ... Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of candy, and playing puzzles when clouds obscure the view -- sounds like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  as the “heart of Europe,” but should also be celebrated for ... been a great adventure indeed! And for the record, “French fries ... -rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  dorms, so look for those within the coming days and weeks. Alyssa asked ... concrete roadmap for the next four years -- I basically re-made my class plan ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... remembers to brake for you. Whenever your hands are off the walker, the walker ... 's exactly the problem Orange Team looked to solve! Roger facilitates teaching

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016