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• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  , so being surrounded by a whole lot of trees was not good for me. I ... On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... , the people I went there with had a car, so the commute was very doable

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for ... After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  Sciences from MIT. I can see the light. I CAN SEE IT. IT IS SO SO CLOSE. Of ... On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to ... in the neighborhood, I can speak with some certainty that he is not ... -time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be ... MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I ... . Others There a few other groups that I'm not very involved in. There's a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend ... put on a haunted house for the kids of our local neighborhood. While I did take a lot of pictures from the event, there is one that I think

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  to win races, they can use technology. Well, I guess that's just a ... "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  claustrophobia, a sense that if I don’t make something I can’t go on. Art is a ... ’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... for 6.046. I put it on the top shelf to avoid the oil paint rubbing off

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can ... list as many as I can. The most popular jobs for the graduating economics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my thing. So I took a moment, thought, and told him the first of my pursuits ... fleeting fifth-grade dreams of being a mechanical engineer. When I was being

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some ... , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... an attorney for McGuireWoods, LLP. And I have two more friends entering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  blocking my driveway. Buy your friends a drink w/ your savings. Have your ... 't have a license for getting into 21+ spaces, only your passport, which you ... IDEA. So you apply for a Massachusetts resident ID card instead. Even if

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  tools you'll need for classes, but the hike in the snow can be a ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now ... :06:10 -0400 [08/02/05 17:06:10 EDT] From: Sam Maurer To: Professor Christopher A ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  ="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the ... nothing due. i wanted to spend a day in nyc from sheer boredom, but it ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  Council for the Arts), it was 9:15pm, and I decided that, after a day of ... over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  applications from a certain geographical region? Or are they random? I mean, will ... will shake out, but I expect we'll be up slightly from last year's ~2800. I'll post an official number when I can. Oren asked, "I'm assuming you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  -registration). Basically, all I needed was a signature on a form from the Harvard professor ... you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005