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• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time ... that in a later post. Also, I didn't want my experience this week to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a ... friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  help the world transition from a fossil-fuel-powered world to an "electrochemical" world where energy will be produced and stored cleanly. He tries to ... ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  requirement, where students have to take a certain amount of HASS classes before ... 's assignment we had to submit a pitch for six different story ideas that we ... ? Revolutions. Beer. Pigeons. At 3 a.m., I wrote a synopsis for a story where

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology ... , then I want to remind you success is not always a straight line. Your ... matter where you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  mind also find themselves wandering over to writing. Writing is my minor ... experimental writing. From Dada to 'Pataphysics and many more, we learned a lot ... which involved using a constraint, such as one from the Table of Forms, to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  sure I hadn't snapped a flag off the trophy and was relieved to find it ... published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  it's rare to find any real gems there. when i was a kid, i had a binder full of cds and dvds and a player that would strap to the passenger ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  side project where they want to create an auto turret with a nerf gun ... competition where you code your own bot to compete against other teams' bots in ... Street Insight, where I learned Ocaml and a bit more about trading. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... that feels to a parent (although other parents will instinctively

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  , basically a program where you pay a lot of money to live on a college campus ... A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just ... IAP, but this break I really wanted to just chill out. Just wanted to let you guys know I'm not dead, Haha. Will have a more in depth check in

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a ... Senegal: One thing I forgot to mention - Lamine is actually a total ... the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... hearing other a capella groups perform, my desperation to join the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  spinners, where we learn to spin, flesh, breathe, and eat fire. Professional ... implementing a project from this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing ... increased linearly with wind speed up to a threshold, beyond which the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where ... he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch ... living their lives, and to remember there’s a world outside of psets and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013