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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... dog-friendly; you can hardly walk a block without seeing a dog. The ... . Since I could probably talk for far too long about how great Seattle is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  institution, while holding out hope for good news from MIT. Those not offered ... , and for the most part is what happens. Some, however, really want a ... Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  from taking [annotation note="Critical Internet Studies, a class I have ... week. For starters, it was raining when I woke up. Also, I was running on ... "]Canvas[/annotation] did not respond after my 10th page refresh. I do not have a propensity

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... so enjoy       a view from palamidi    

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... , and we're starting to see winter hats. I, for one, have ordered the ... : Build the second ball for the snowman. This was easy, just a smaller

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  out the first one for some Q&A.] Last Thursday night, Ruth emailed the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... to the GAMIT's review (and now I can proudly say, personal experience

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any ... 's likeness to recycled cardboard; a girl I know at Berkeley calls me to ... 's imperfections when I moved into Next House (not to mention that you can't switch

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from ... excuse for me to revel in the fact that I miss my little brother a ton ... a couple weeks, goober! (From Thanksgiving break of last year. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  wrong. Can you come over and help?" Yeah, I can come over. We worked for ... My Mondays are horrible. I'm thinking about bringing a camera with me next Monday so you all can see what they're like, but until then here's a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  Luisa B. ’16 baked from scratch 1.909859317102744... π pies (and I did dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  the Boston side, across the Charles from MIT. This is where we spent our past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path ... during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician ... the top 20 bodypainters, I could give you a fair imitation, given enough

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  I've been struggling with the grad school vs. industry conundrum for a ... won't ever really know that for myself unless I do it myself. And on a ... a step back from my whirring brain and wonder why I'm like this at all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  several small balcony sections from which you can get a nice view of the ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... second floor, near the M-Z section of "Current Periodicals" so I can treat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  planned for later in the year! Hmmm, I think I'm going to need a bigger ... I've been working with video since CPW wrapped up, generally lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  .  We recognize it's a lot of work for all of you to apply to MIT. We ... international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now available at decisions.mit.edu You can log in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... ; ...some skates reminiscent of a hoverboard... https://youtu.be/JgG2_so_GyI

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  sourced from a Google form I sent out to ec-discuss, East Campus's general ... EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024