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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not ... cookies, and baguettes. Some tasted better than I though, some not so much ... learned how to set type, design a layout, and print our work on a handmade

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... southwest of Seattle. Believe me, we had to work for this view![/caption] And ... my favorite things to do after work was to walk down to Lake Washington

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  few weeks. On a good note, I almost finished the Pset. My work looks ... not my favorite. I am really looking forward to the electromagnetic ... am not really a fan of the big lecture hall 26-100 (If you go here, you

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  , including (but not limited to) those from the countries affected by the ban ... countries not (yet) affected by the ban, but who worry about anti ... ; especially through the work of Lincoln Lab, we are engaged every day in keeping

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  , including this year, my final one at this esteemed institute. Not only have I ... and hang framed, original works of art from MIT’s collection in their ... work? 1. Gaze in wonder at the 600+ works of art at the Student Loan Art

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  gravitational waves, learned about opportunities to work abroad for free (MISTI ... the moment listening and trying to absorb some of their greatness, not ... . Some imposter syndrome symptoms are definitely present too. It’s hard not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a ... ’s photos are magnificent, so be assured--her work will frequently be featured ... or a day or even just an hour, too. Just don’t think about work or THE

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  for the locking mechanism to work, so I called instructions through the ... about how engineers, not physicists, do things like carry around tools ... changed quite a bit.” He asked what area of physics we work in (condensed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... material.  Not that I'm naming names. Laptop Home base for nearly everything I do.  This is my SolidWorks-ing, paper-writing, photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  inevitably periods when the semester gets out of control: the work pile ... more of your work; otherwise you won't get everything done! Sleep three ... today? Skip class to work on the pset instead. This is great on timescales

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros ... About How The Universe Works", and working out pros and cons using ... , great - famous person for an advisor. I'm not going to get any attention

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  destroyed. This is not particularly surprising, since he was a Battlecode ... development. On a similar note, if P = NP...well, let's not get into that. What ... star, pushed a rudimentary but perfectly working reverse lookup to our

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... in presence if not in spirit, like an unwieldy pet rock. 3:00 PM ... sad for the next two hours. 4:15 PM Comparing camera lenses Working

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough ... common solvent, which those of you who have worked in labs or even used ... bunker” or “the dungeon,” as she worked on ICE. Each weekly pset built upon

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  never give ourselves enough time away from work, from checking our email ... not all that different from something I heard Dr Neri Oxman say during ... audience of MIT admitted students was that they were not just here to solve

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  MIT well before 5:45pm. If you choose to ignore my advice, you will not ... about what happened on Friday – it just involves doing work for 1.00 and ... the fare gates. It didn’t quite work that way, because for the umpteenth

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  I'm not sure anybody has mentioned her, so allow me. Everybody, meet ... how to work the Internet. Today we all got an e-mail from Winnie mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  feel like one giant meatloaf of beaching and eating and working and ... Monday afternoons. After work we go places, or sometimes we don't, and ... where you can not only create your own dishes, but they also have half

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... sandwich. What's not to love? I've already met with several MIT interns and ... every American working in Germany has said is that Germans are way more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  effective if the students are not present because they work on problem sets ... students work through problems. Today, we still provide this online version ... governs MIT education: while faculty work hard to create effective learning

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007