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• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I ... eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... few weeks at MIT, both of the (old) laptops I had brought to campus

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... feel great at the finish line, you'll still have a lot of people cheering ... --for better or for worse--kind of a defining experience of my time at MIT. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... movie on Netflix at least 14 times over, if not more, and read the first ... arrived at the gorgeous venue. We took the escalator to the top floor and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  to move at a speed of about 5 steps every 10 seconds (over ... degrees (I know you winter-lovers are laughing at me but just remember I ... of the Boston skyline at sunset, from the sailing pavilion.  

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for ... moving to and living at MIT becomes more of a reality for you), I want to ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  actually still technically a member of the Class of 2011. While at Squid Labs ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... school/Talibe center I volunteered at (photo courtesy of Lauren Scott

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  representing MIT (well, and the nation of Belize) at WorldMUN. Should be quite ... "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson ... are mostly low, with a few are flashing in a miasma of neon, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Burton-Conner with loads of wash. Mitra used to say freshman year that at ... student center and cowered in fear of the terrible results. And at that ... 's just one more thing I just thought of yesterday: laundry. Where are the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees ... check at the end of September I got a 60/100. But I learned. By the next I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... any customers. One day, independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  of metallurgy, you would be the most knowledgable individual at MIT on ... the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... 'burbs at the base of a mountain. Or wild turkeys. Actually, I almost got ... So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can ... rule of thumb is: imagine that someone at a family reunion — a cousin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... at MIT. We've been best of friends ever since. Bill P. '19, middle, was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  of daylight savings time, it caught us unprepared. At 3:02 AM, team ... kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012