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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... costs less than $100, and will help monitor the oil spill's impact at a level of detail that exceeds what satellites can provide. Working with

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library ... to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to ... kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deceive you. Kresge is 1/8 of a sphere. I once walked by it and remarked to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT Class of 2009. Akash, Ben and I had lunch together, and while we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  education back at MIT, and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard ... is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  set of friends but never really had a "friend group" at MIT, instead ... because it's somewhat at the bottom of my priority list. I also am taking 6 ... exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I watch the transit of Mercury. Or at least, attempt to watch ... couple of volunteers from HMMT head to eat dinner at PJ’s Pancake House. I ... Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other ... of all the dorms at MIT. i know 40% of senior house residents identify ... surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  't have to emerge from this school as an engineer… especially at the cost of ... back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of the most creative analogies I’ve ever heard. I’m at wind ensemble ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  mind staring at multiple pages of scientific jargon. My HASS is ... Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... this, you, too, are here, or belong here, one of us, walking at a running ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... use some community sympathy also. :) What? Of course it makes you appear ... remember from the Mario hack entry, I was friends with a bunch of people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something  Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  case, it's kind of delicate and at the same time kind of badass, becase ... to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  stampede of Nike-shod joggers, you can congratulate yourself by turning left down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night ... hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of Jack Florey. If you're actually an ... . Besides, what good MIT student isn't up at 4 AM? (Dear Concerned Parents: we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005