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• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4 ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... a second UROP in MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center, read a paper on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just ... , "The Man With The Screaming Brain," and what better place to premiere it ... independent theater located a scant mile and a half from MIT? But wait, there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... opportunity to dine -- they don't serve hamburgers and fries there, you know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... human-powered plane) and Decavitator (a human-powered boat), which were both powered to world records (Daedalus and Decavitator) by MIT aero

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  over a week ago, and the last time I blogged was last year, but I never ... so many awesome entries planned, and I have to write them, because then I graduate and don't get to be a rockstar blogger anymore. Ack!) So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the ... ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This ... yesterday and the streets around campus as well as the Harvard Bridge were

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... -building. Taking apart and reconstructing various household appliances. Screwing around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3.091[/annotation] and [annotation note="Introductory Biology. Satisfies the Biology ... first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  , including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... MIT appeals to you and why? At MIT, we seek to develop in each member of our community the ability and passion to work collaboratively for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a bunch of nerds who always wear hoodies and jeans!). Tonight, Kappa Alpha ... both Boston professionals as well as MIT student (and alumni) designers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There's homework, lab ... me. He says 'hi.' lol...) But today, I wanted to make some time and ... grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  . Please sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Let’s start from the beginning ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I ... ). I, like many (but not all) at MIT, knew I wanted to go into math and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  above goodies are complementary with the class, I still need to go out and ... purported “blizzard” that otherwise left 49 of the 50 US states covered ... was the first real session of studio, and we… practiced drawing a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people ... people’s lives but about which I knew almost nothing when I started, and maybe even more about myself as a writer and a person. I thought you might

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based almost entirely on tests... so basically I have three tests, a pset, and possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  cuz we really like the animation style and multiple universes would let ... do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free ... the good, and a proportion lower than the social optimum will get the ... is no help, and I am not compensating others for this. If I had to pay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005