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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  .  (The flags at left are in the order of team finish.) In the end, it was ... On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  person anymore I still will greet each new class at MIT with excitement. I ... most of the opportunities available to you there you will be at the best ... Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... at MIT is because the people who can do this kind of work take an idea ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... paint at Blick's art store, a sentence which hides a significant amount of deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... something new was really nice. that wasn't really a lot of things, but it ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  . My first article on the implications of the new Internet domain names ... architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  a LOT of new ~culinary experiences~, and I've gotta say that going out ... 't play any of the arcade games because I am not good at them, but the vibe ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... something new; every second of the day a slot I needed to fill; I wanted to partake in everything new that I could, to funnel all of this energy I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... Sarah O'Connor was one of my 5.12 professors at the time, I stayed after ... with a grad student at the start of the fall term. Since last semester

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least ... nitrogen ice cream at Random Hall. Now, I'm going to highlight some of the ... take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... topic for a lot of students at MIT, and that's because everyone has ... months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  records in central square has a few cases of $1 records at the entrance, but ... every row of knitting, i'm better at maintaining the tension that i hold the yarn with, and i'm better at keeping track of how many stitches i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying! Movie! Two things I do significantly less of when I’m at MIT is drive and ... . Working at the front desk of a dorm means you meet a lot of residents, help

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of ... backpack it went. Hardly was this inconsistent with the Way of Things at MIT ... along the lines of “Free ___ and ___ at (some place within a 5-minute run

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ...   a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by Bon Jovi press play, then scroll down and sing the new lyrics  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008