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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  , an amazing pizza restaurant in Kendall Square that you should all go to ... you can finally have answered: how do computers compute? how do braces ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  anything you could do sitting in a lecture hall, which was even more ... . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over and over at career fairs. But it can also come about more organically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  :06 PM 8/2/2005 -0400, you wrote: [Show Quoted Text - 16 lines] Hi Sam ... Australia found this site by Googling the phrase "what happens when you ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... difficult done to you, is trying, as hard as you can, to tend toward the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  . You see, four-point lighting consists of four(4) lights placed in ... be a look you want in a shot, it is not the look we want. David ... pristine and designed with people in mind, and mind you, there will be people

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... sums of several hundreds. It could get crazy in there and it wasn’t hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and students in all majors and all class years (including first-year students) can participate in research through the Undergraduate Research
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  something I love and have it count for credit! In addition to those classes ... Since everyone's doing it, I don't want to miss out on telling you ... physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a

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

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the ... , I can tell you that this year, we denied les than half that number ... 't set any target for that number. We won't have a final count of regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  . More Things to Do Before You Graduate: 1. Participate in Dorm Rush (or ... , that's a nice reasonable list. In case you're wondering, I've done 24 of ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  length of time. You end up bundling up so much that you can't actually ... hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  faster, cheaper, and better for the environment, you can conveniently visit ... now, and for you, too. I said this earlier in the annotations, but ... , you can still sign up for virtual information sessions and tours here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  beautiful mankind can be. Because these are people that have had to live in a ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  can hurt me--and they do. (8) You're the best man I'll ever know. There ... afraid if you see something unfamiliar." Whatever happened to fair dealing? And pure ethics? And nice manners? (1) Given their advantages, you may

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  direct sunlight. The day becomes dark and you can see the stars. Some animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or ... Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  you're not in the Boston area, Brian recommends learning from Robert ... to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found ... club, is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Music, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  being a blogger, which, lol). But for tonight, though, you can watch the ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016