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• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... of the light filtering through the pink curtains of my bedroom in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . There's these corners that I can hide in and do my work. It's quiet, but ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I ... first trip in India and he handed me Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  the people who were juniors in my freshman year, i can only laugh at the ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  things students can do and has had a UROP in the MIT Center for Space ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. She used a two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you find some joy in it, too. P.S. For context, I didn't film this livestream ... video as you please. https://youtu.be/4WzWDxgZ5Ns  

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  I'M DONE WITH FALL CLASSES! and am now back home in London, doing ... .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... amusing excerpts with you. Enjoy! (The point of the problem was to show

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you, since you're at home not thinking about school work because come on, it ... Maguire). I've been so busy sitting out in the sun/getting my official EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  Soooo someone asked on Sam's blog: Are you and Mitra dating? I wish! You ask a fair question, though. After all, Sam does lean uncomfortably close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River (if you panned a bit more to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and ... in The Matrix): (Click on either photo for a zoomed-in view)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... .01: Classical Mechanics. (Should I be linking to 8.01t or the 8.01 in lecture format?? Dilemma.) Simply lovely You don't have to stop biking once

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it ... us will let you know when we have confirmation that all of the ... the US Postal Service. While you wait for these updates, enjoy a few

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  her SATs. In the fictional world of "The OC," colleges might have quotas ... pirate, though, does earn you bonus points. [read more: TWoP] Marilee was quoted in a recent Bloomberg News article on stress & college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I will limit myself to 12 words in each caption. By the by, the entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... your MyMIT portal, where you'll find the Class of 2009 guestbook ... completed their financial aid applications before March 11. If you haven't yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... serious reading. In the meantime, we'll contnue with our other work ... cities in the country, with amazing architecture and interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... ;       Zinnekan Belgian Waffles A cute cafe in Harvard ... " align="alignleft" width="225"] finished this in three minutes flat

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  chairs are hinged in such away that when you pull the seat down the back ... ! That's all for now, I'll let you know in the coming months which chairs ... MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008