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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are ... into a discussion about the kind of person who's happy at MIT. It ... hugely entertained by the idea (or the sight!) of people wrestling in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  and early college clinging onto the snippets of poetry you reblogged ... visited a comic book store in the basement of an unassuming building. you ... . and that's the core of it, isn't it? the problem is that you're so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major ... impeded the ambulatory progress of David Karger, resident god of algorithms ... My friend Stephan’13 exploded into Internet fame over the holidays

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... blogger would be kind of overkill? I really love the whole concept of the ... 't appropriate. Many thanks, and hope you're enjoying the rest of your summer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E ... .021 because the class is rather small (only really consisting of 11? people if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  think many of the attitudes of the computing culture has spilled over into the culture and attitudes of MIT in general (which probably explains why ... hour, on average). Or perhaps you could argue that it was the culture of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem."]"The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... students: voc techs will often fix your cars at the cost of the parts, saving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... making iOS and Android app versions of the Google Glass apps that can be ... to me and delicious! On the last Monday of the externship, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... of recipes and the ingredients that they require. Put in the days ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of ... way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear ... , "Music shall fill a particular segment of the air." We hear sounds from ... intriguing: data sonification of wikipedia edits - by the world according to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of posting patterns on the blogs. But when I ran it earlier this morning, I realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  , Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... summer, I did as any nerdy sister would do to remedy the situation of a ... here we are, me crufting on the blogs, you not knowing who I am. I never

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  filled of Cranium. Some of my favorite quotes from the night: In a "Club Cranium" round of Cloodle, I attempted to draw "Baby's Breath": Diana: Are ... during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. For the ... some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But ... way (we are probably a minority of people who most of the time don't enjoy the flavor/smell/anything of butter). The filling is sweet, but not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019