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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your Physics ... at the idea of having to discuss that academic disaster with the recent ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  is not a place where parental desires matter. At the end of the day ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  doubt getting some sort of degree in Course 7 with her award ... managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... -strength and super-density at the cost of having his skin and "all his internal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  that looking at it immediately brings to mind the warmth of a low fire ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  ourselves at the last item of the day, a Leif Eriksson statue. At this point ... , notably, some of the items at Jamaica Pond) for my last trip. This, in ... Kendall/MIT and headed down to Forest Hills, all the way at the very end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  New York at 11:00 AM. Of course, the Fung Wah Bus Company hurriedly ... their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four ... describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent ... question was like, "How did you meet your partner?" I was kind of stuck at ... showdown in the final rounds of the 5th grade spelling bee at Herbert Hoover

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I ... have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  ) - but of course, I knew what none of them were called at that time. I ... think about the Spanish instruction at MIT? What would 4 weeks of ... and I will come back at night to the caretaker of the apartment

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be ... 've clearly succeeded at MIT despite my apparent lack of Academic Potential ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  trays of cupcakes at their dorm, Senior Haus. I was invited to the baking ... story: at one point, Ben accidentally knocked one of the cupcakes to the ... story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -all-definite list of things that I want to explore during my time at MIT, arranged ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  the MIT Museum. Not at MIT, you could take a tour of Fenway Park, walk ... sorority events, though. The social scene at MIT is really what you make of ... , about 50% of all males at MIT decide to live in frats and it is actually a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  all four of us got in. So the admission percentage is at least 44%, and ... I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006