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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... point we had to hop between stones to cross a river. We found a turquoise ... visibility marred the view of the lake. The weekend I went to San Juan, a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed business plan as if we were about to start a company. This involves ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  to Michael Fauntleroy Stopheles (M.F. Stopheles, for short) for a mere ... puzzles therein. This would raise their Evilometers to a level where they ... also had to complete a series of unfortunate events that would show how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... , here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a ... hereby invite you to partake in this multi-course meal: a curated selection ... ’re a little more work to hang/remove clothes on than slippery plastic

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs. It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  that I have some experience with stirfrying a few things, I'm excited to ... School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  have a spare copy of Twilight lying around. Since it held no value to us ... flattened, we naturally decided to indulge in a little Twilight bashing ... entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  chance to capture a few videos of performances, one of which you can check ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... Technique describes as a "collective photo blog" and which allows you to view ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  world would come to a screeching halt. I think of all this tonight ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse ... is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... blog. I hope you have a great weekend. Best wishes to all of you.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I'll be out for most of June on paternity leave, but will still try to blog when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Modern Healthcare Magazine.  During the 2008 he was a consultant to the ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and ... and you end up with a wonderful place to study economics as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... would require me to cut out a small patch) and would tell me its chemical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that ... :30, committing to the idea of skipping my 10 a.m. Chinese lecture entirely. I had been missing at least a few classes a week and showing up late to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... Yo homez, I'm back! And guess what? I'm a senior. I. AM. A

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U ... story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024