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• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a sample tile that my sister and I have since rediscovered. I've also ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  , or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and ... graduate. And I HATE it. Why? Because I have NO CLUE what I'm going to do ... against textbooks about thermodynamics and control systems, and I don't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... deciding what activities to drop and which ones to keep. I ended up making

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them. “are you doing ok?” “yeah” and they are clearly not ok. i don’t want to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... accumulated into internal goosebumps. And when that wasn't enough, eventually

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and ... student center, the free event supplies all the materials and machinery that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  DOUGH: clean your counter and wash your dishes wash your hands ... (more fun with music and friends) keeping adding water and kneading until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... , and we look forward to including collaborations with leading experts ... White House ​advisor for ​mobile and ​data ​innovation. He will work with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... , centrifuges, and some mostly harmless chemicals. After that, we participated in

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was ... person...and to stuff my face with the alumni's homemade desserts! It was held at one of the alum's house and started with a typical question and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt ... far away.  That is, it is about a mile and a half down Massachusetts

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. Within 10 minutes of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... , email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about work, psets, and consistently staying up till 4 am or 5 am. (4) It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  -notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to ... , and that is RUNE, MIT's journal of art and literature. Having partaken ... MIT students (both undergraduate and graduate) who really enjoy creative

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS ... last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript (April 23); AXO Lip Sync, which Snively has blogged about (April 24, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day. Xavier and I know each other because I'm his Mommy, and now we're Brothers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  Classes started yesterday, which means I became immediately and ... violent downward spiral hugging the porcelain god all night, and as such I ... jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  next year, I got back from work yesterday and spotted a tour group making the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  History and Literature-- interdisciplinary and brutal like we'd never seen ... , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded ... desks- packed with papers, binders- to gather pens and notes, to close the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007