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• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then ... seat for you right here.” Madeline sat down on his knee and they surrounded her, some standing and some kneeling, and sang “Do You Believe in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... on my research and to [annotation note="to be a teaching assistant ... weekend at the WildFire Flow Arts Retreat and learned how to [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  comes in on time, writing last minute stories, and essentially making sure ... me and the two other news editors to make sure that you get your bi ... so, as me and the other news editors were a part of the survey

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its winners political figures like Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos and David Souter; scientists like Edwin Hubble, Robert J. van de Graaff and Brian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half ... . Past the roller coaster there was a two-story fort, and beyond that (and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by ... , I had Orientation at the Broad Institute for my UROP there - which ... and while loops, lists/tuples, and various other things. I'm enjoying it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn't be happier ... Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  admissions site is really something, huh? I just look and I see categories, endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT Campus and General Institute Requirements and MIT's Influence on the World

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

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and ... -wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer ... (and now coloring books too). Last summer, I got to see Chuck Palahniuk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  degrees outside, and since I had sent an e-mail for my floor asking for ... bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... college and probably my best friend from MIT to this day. We got our picture

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

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  have and ruin it spontaneously on a whim, because every little state ... -level and also not important past analogy purposes"]I also want to talk about ... macroscopic, meaning it isn't about the individual atoms and particles bumping

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... "]window.[/annotation] I’m fine, more or less, and this isn’t complete burnout, yet, but I am

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  the day, exhausted, I headed home. It had been a 95 degree day and I was ... the original parts and then pick a team name/theme. Dress up and have a great time. As interns, Ian (the kid who works next to me) and I were

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told ... doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... I've got this term is 6.003: Signals and Systems. And, to be honest, I

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

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  hours/week… aiya I give up.” And no less than five seconds later, I ... major requirements you have and have not completed; handy for making sure ... who need that class to graduate, then based on descending class year and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022