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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different ... and build a chimney. Not to be outdone, I landscaped my house's yard

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  4-159 and somehow I need to find a stapler in the next five minutes ... take place in Building 4. (Yes, that's its actual name: Building 4. What ... Undergraduate Math Office relevant? Two reasons. First off, I'm a student grader

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... .   To no surprise, I'm not the only person who's experienced this. In

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... exhaustion. I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful bunch of people to work ... students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  what you'll find) and, to my amazement, I saw a big ol' question mark ... MII! I'M STANDING ON A GIANT AR CARD IN LOBBY 7!!! Ok, this was too ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  around and filling a water dispenser in my mini fridge. Step 4: Sleep I ... I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on ... incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... ). I cried because I reflected on the time I went to a small carnival in ... transparent, I grew up in a mixed-income suburb, and this was my only experience

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you ... applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been quite busy here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  understand the world, and now i'm doing a senior project in that field. or the ... 't really know what that meant when i was in high school. now i think i do. my ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... eventually serve in the military or in the MIT ROTC program. MIT has a long ... transgender people serving in the military, we will do now what we did then: We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  themes of poverty, violence, and love, or 3) a catalogue of food I devoured ... school. I know I’ve spent my fair share of time in the basement study room ... , confusion means I’m learning, and isn’t that what I came here to do? So I re

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden ... television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris ... to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the matter before the Court. MIT had previously filed similar briefs in prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I ... swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if ... Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best ... 've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ? In any case, when I heard that there would be a demonstration involving ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... explore? Being a scientist-in-training myself, this is encouraging because

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  you push a button: http://xeaphyr.tumblr.com/post/150788176669/i-made-a-teeny-computer-count-in ... 9:41 am: in lab   5:51 pm: in lab again...   7:44 pm: ...still in lab       it's been one of those days. we have

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I ... CPW officially begins tomorrow! I've spent the past couple months ... - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011