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• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... behind for the new prospectives, the incoming Class of 2016, and everyone

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet!  She brought up her giant telescope and we looked at the moon, Mars

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I ... , I've managed to make plenty of mistakes - but at the same time, each ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... ." Students in the new dorms retaliated with streams of four well-directed fire ... ; That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  know that some students will accept our offer of admission while ... I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... recommendations for parents: Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm Come meet yours truly at

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  at the end of your college application journey? What's the point of ... helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because ... new digital environment, cyber-utopians ended up belittling the role of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to ... multitude of new tools, woodworking equipment, and supplies to convert an ... all of the new tools. We spent about 45 minutes cutting leather, opening

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  about 1mm away from the piece of metal at a perpendicular angle, press the ... advantage of all the cool resources Metropolis has to offer and to finally ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  Networking Brunch," and, perhaps the best of them all, Tech Night at the Pops: For 108 years now, Tech Night at the Pops has been one of the most beloved traditions at the Institute. Generations of MIT alumni, guests

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from ... better. the food wasn't too bad, and at least neither of us spent any money

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and ... through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  research, at least in biology, is driven by questions of cause and effect. If ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015