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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ONE WHOLE YEAR AGO (man I am bad at this timeliness thing) I began the ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy ... I know, I know, I graduated like 4 months ago, why am I still here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  — I ended up going with a gold and an Ultrium companion, not an easy ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  end of April, and I resolved to find a major, the major, the one true ... never had to memorize it. At the end, I understood it, too. My pod went ... . I took an engineering class in high school and discovered that making

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  agenda, but I usually fail and my agendas always end up 90% empty. I think ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my favorite backgrounds from Steven Universe! Another reason I like physical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  -- here at MIT, though, this is the department in which I feel both highly ... indecisive student: I end up adding and dropping a couple of classes every ... retrospect a bit impolite. It happened a little over three years ago, when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  graduation. I haven't graduated yet so I have no direct knowledge of this.) The ... just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... —something I've already mentioned here. I've already mentioned that MIT has

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  sell a ton of shirts hats and socks Oh, um, I should probably ... I go to college. Yay! Here's the thing about college, every single ... , or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... "]careening series of events[/annotation], I took an ill-advised courseload of 8 ... , spectacular, no notes These were my favorite classes this semester! I found

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  ...Clever. I also was privileged enough to receive a hat to commemorate the hack ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  move to the more mature end of the spectrum. I've been reading The Blade ... Week 1: Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More! Historical What If ... Top Crowdfunds $1m+ A few months back I discovered the Geek And Sundry Youtube

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  Potter, in the labyrinth at the end of Goblet of Fire. I came across a ... I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... Unified Engineering mean my afternoons are very free. Since I'm also living

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  high schoolers, and when I wasn’t teaching, I got a few souvenirs. This ... Ow ManY fInGeRs aM i HoLdiNg uP,” I will be able to see perfectly out of ... [annotation note="*Checks watch* wow I was a sophomore last time I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school ... overcome. The Faucet In my freshman fall, I was unfortunate enough to end up ... high school, who I started to appreciate more once I started living with

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High ... . Now here's a really, really cool story. I wrote for my high school ... , but I am confused about your title "Tecker." My son is on a trip with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  window in a high rise or a friend or a tree. Would it be the things I can ... I was walking down Mass Ave yesterday under an umbrella with a friend, the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  's all beginning to end In a few weeks, I’d pack my bags and leave my ... I. Lift - Radiohead I didn’t really have a good senior year. My ... until I collapsed under the pressure had I not gotten an MIT acceptance

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when ... died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... wild game or poach a cow from a nearby farm. (Actually, I think the only ... . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  ended up finding about an item a day for a week or so. I also ended up ... ’t figure out how to get to them. I ended up finding a couple items by ... managed to find 21 of them by the end of the month. Alan: I think my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021