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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... 's usefulness in action. But what's REALLY cool about the company is that it was founded by a guy named Jim Margraff who is, you guessed it, an MIT alumnus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  steak in a long time. esp has a yearly traditional texas roadhouse ... a game for the assassins guild. it didn't happen in 2022 or 2021, and ... wednesday night, i ate dinner at gyukaku, a yakiniku restaurant in harvard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... ’t be the only thing—seeing a movie in a theater is more immersive, and I ... is a nontrivial task especially for a show with as much interwoven

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  much stuff? HOW?) and went hiking in the White Mountains, a ~2h45m drive ... lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want ... (ART) in Cambridge. Teller of Penn & Teller (a famous magician duo

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  negotiate with effectively. As a GEL 2, it was great to see how much the GELs ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... relevant to engineering leadership. After much discussion, we settled on a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from ... every function we write in the class returns a visual output whether that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  -and-half idea. As you can see, light really is a problem in this room...but now ... in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... are a lot of things you can do with them in terms of design

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... with items from my to do list is not a very healthy mindset and that i ... things i've done this semester, which is a thing that i do when i think my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  together in a room and figure out what the heck is happening. I feel very ... kinds of popular platforms. And the real cultural story is that a place like MIT, and a department like CMS/W, is willing to experiment

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... playwright, who was piling boxes into the back of a truck. I asked him how it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my ... sterile environment (that is, a chemical hood). In addition to mastering ... . The first major step in making a hydrogel is weighing out all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... . This was a pretty good whim. The second is a novel written by Gabriel ... ), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  note="yesterday here is referring to last last Saturday. you know how ... skirt. For most of my life I’ve never liked skirts much, but seeing how ... ="the harvard bridge is probably more well known, but the longfellow's much cuter

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going ... next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... take a tour of some of MIT's greatest works of student art, found in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  graduate school a.) is best taken early on in your college years when you ... heavy emphasis on how great it is for translational research to have a ... ? It's the thing you do if you major in life sciences and want to get a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  . Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... that’s a conversation for another time). But whatever it is that connects ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , and much more. According to statistics from the MIT Careers Office, in ... how to research a company, how to network, and more. Career Week also ... lined up a month into senior year, almost a year in advance. For the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... phone for half hours at a time, explaining how I just felt incompetent and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  ), consensus is not easy. I think living in the dorm fostered a certain sense of ... -effective, convenient boarding with a strong sense of community, such that people stay in ... Cambridge is very expensive, with studio apartment rates near MIT in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020