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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  available and stored wind power for their locomotion. For the past 20 years ... "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  world. The streets were full of tourists. It felt like REX, but for art ... [/caption] All told, that was lovely. Which brings me to my intentions for the ... love everything that’s going on — the classes I’m signed up for, in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  year-old beloved pet bunny, had to go to the vet for a tooth trim ... travel across the Atlantic for a work trip. Actually this was quite ... -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  trying to improve the technique for producing high-quality HRQAR images ... his research, serving as co-publicity chair for the South Asian American Students (SAAS) group, and playing the trumpet for MIT Symphony Orchestra

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  live in singles. You can stay in the same single for as long as you want ... ; unlike "home", here I cannot define the difference for you, because I don ... random person in the hallway and mistake them, just momentarily, for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  many stay in this country for life, repaying the American promise of ... support for our Muslim friends and colleagues. As an immigrant and the child ... \     Protests erupted all over the country yesterday

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  above the average Planning out classes for next semester Thoughts of ... about Things to do for the future get over imposter's syndrome ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  you through the unsatisfying yet convenient medium of cell phone pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full, lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Kennebunk, Maine. The sand was the perfect dampness for writing, so I proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg ... the mid-60s!). This is the view from Simmons' 8th floor terrace. F) My

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  separation from boxes of expired Life*. *A lucid metaphor for the fate of the ... murmured tingle of glucose, fulfills the freshman's unspoken need for comfort ... barging inside one morning, asking the waitress for the semi-secret Sichuan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M.Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  for the [annotation note="That's fine! I love Windows 7 and they ... reveal some of the things I know for sure I will be blogging soon, as a ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... being taught the same way for over 18 semesters there are a ton of ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came ... special traditions, but it's not so fun for the tourist and the non ... information about the hack, thanks for tips in the comments]

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  choice for where they want to live. The key to the whole party though, is ...   Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

   urgent despite the grade not being finalized for months. Start making a Google ... need a 431% on the final. Plan for every possible exam score you could ... even more frustrating was that the exam was not particularly difficult

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2030 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... on this post to focus the conversations on the open threads for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  suitable for children in the slighest. be careful lol ... into MIT was for us in the grand scheme of things, and our answers varied ... The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020