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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say that my name is Dave and I'm the new Communications Manager for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... ) problem sets I'm responsible for grading every Friday, and where I bring ... a thermodynamics problem set for the past four hours straight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  + Roller Blades = awesome. Rumor has it that I can get a fine for skating inside buildings but nobody has yelled at me yet (well, except for Copy ... . This morning I woke up at 5:30 and went skating for a couple of hours. I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got ... 't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have ... morning when I first wake up, I reached blindly for my iPod so I could check

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  gave me a quizzical look when I came home for Christmas break freshman ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved ... . True, I don't get any credit or pay for the hours I put into the Musical

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  abalanzaba sobre Best Buy, intentando comprar televisores y cámaras digitales

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... for everything—Musical Theatre Guild, lean0nme, Splash, Think, Quiz Bowl

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  , technically, is a tropical fruiting plant, even though it's mostly grown for foliage in the north, and not for its fruit.  Only the lemon tree has ... my care. I'm really not sure how to account for this developing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... without any inhibition for three days straight. i've been coping with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  position the Institute for decades to come as a world hub of education ... structure for collaborative education, research and innovation, the MIT ... be not only a center of advances in computing, but also a place for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of other MIT community members. He was partly inspired by Bruke K. ‘19, for ... different skills needed for effective research. There were even some projects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... the lottery for free dinners with distinguished members of the physics ... lottery, I usually prefer to save my luck for the day when I will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  Adelaide '09 for the diagonal idea. I decided that painting the bottom half ... with this sad excuse for a palm tree: Well, I wasn't convinced that I ... discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... physics capstone, which pairs you with one lab partner for the entire class ... always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed because I didn't remember half the vocabulary for this exam; because I fell ... and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead ... and asking for advice. I noticed how people addressed him, and how they ... 't fundamentally that different. Still, it's not for me. There was no chip on my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... , wiped blank by the ten-hour road trip, who will be born for real in the ... from home -- but for now, MIT, it is so nice to meet you. Let's be good

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever ... in Germany for a summer, I could read and understand the language. But ... guaranteed. Basically if you fall in line, the spot is waiting for you and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  , called home for more than twenty five years. As a diverse community of ... for boldness, big ideas, hard work and hands-on problem-solving. Our ... engineering, we are proud that, for many of our students, MIT supplies their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017