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• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  . there's really just that element to a live performance—maybe it's knowing ... something you use to eat a meal at a dining hall. people who live in dorms with dining halls are required to purchase a certain number of meal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

     We decided to bake this enormous pie to remind you that MIT ... available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account. There

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  police officers (who unfortunately could not attend) to see the place where ... there to see Boston and Cambridge from a completely new perspective. ... some fun with them on the roof! Adam S. '14 wanted a photo of him in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  trimester grades).   You do not need to have a hardcopy of your updated ... section. The Midyear Updates form will be a simple text box, similar to one ... words. We are happy to accept a midyear/updated transcript from your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... Manned space exploration has been limited to fairly short missions to nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  ."]"lab".[/annotation] It's called a lab because it involves a checkoff, where you talk to ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... 's helpful to note that a semester is roughly four months, or sixteen weeks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... Bridge for a day to film 21? (More on the movie itself later.) #35 - Wait, Boston has a mayor? (As a college student who just happens to go to school

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... Python>Java is TRUE) I love python, it's so easy to read and it makes a ... their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  emotional bias with a scientific eye, and to daily question and reaffirm our ... with him (and they have a perfect right to do so) but rather than ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) requirement, you have to take two

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  of "Bring a flash drive to Italy, then we can go to internet cafes and ... a good idea to build a city on hundreds of low-lying interconnected ... 's Square, the lowest point of Venice. According to a poster we saw nearby

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in ... down on a whiteboard trying to remember any cities I could and Alan Z

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... , small bags of stuff that do a lot of work to keep us alive. We are ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of ... to be more successful for a longer period of time. Responsibilities of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... arcade I went to! 26) A snowman plushy our grandparents brought us when ... are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... . Seen lots of movies (prior to this, the last time I went to a theater was ... up a Bose Home Theater System in my room. And still more to come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... , it'll always be such a small window to the vastness of the types of ... continue staying awake to watch the sunrise. It always had such a chill

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to