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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about ... former attorney general, a local actor, and an astronaut come to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  a number of diverse fields - ranging from biochemistry to materials ... their project. Sustainability@MIT is a student group dedicated to ... - designed to serve as a starting point for students with big ideas (or small

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  encouraged him to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT, Pedersen decided to start his career ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I ... will probably take a little longer than Pangea did to separate. Whether ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the other bloggers have been blogging a lot, too!). To returning readers ... skills (though that definitely improved a lot too). It was the ability to ... like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a ... my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  love to use paint as a base for mixed media things) or a new media ... actress (I used to take acting classes through a talent agency and ... as a craft) or a poet (I used to perform at poetry slams) or a food

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  go back to sleep. It had been a late night of work for both of us the ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... ! She comes out and treats me to a pastry and coffee because that's just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough ... people reading this can understand this experience to some level: a missed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem ... to try recently i was reading a blog post about aging and love and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... California the day before his new job and swallowed a bee that proceeded to sting him. He then had to meet all his co-workers with a busted lip and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I ... to others. And man was that a heartbreaking realization. I was ... to spend a lot of forced time with not just myself, but the moments I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The ... me, but MIT is a reach school for everyone and it’s difficult to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... that's a skill that I'd like to develop this semester, both in classes ... though this class is a requirement, I'm going to enjoy it a lot. One of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005