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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  video was designed to remind alums of all the reasons they love MIT, but I ... Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New York - you can find every single kind of person here, even Red Sox fans

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  : It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876, MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... . It is the smallness of the bullet that gives it power. Likewise

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us ... ! Every day, and from all over the world, we receive offers of lucrative ... One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  in Seattle, W.A. where most girls wore the hijab in school as part of ... back to the very first week of college. One of my friends offered me a ... freshman year at MIT. Coming back to school in the fall, I of course didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  forever, so I got a kind of intricate with my design. I decided to machine ... ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... fair share of building since I've gotten here (plastic bottle pirate ship

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  school, where to work, and of course, where to live. Another person I spent ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... much more! I joined because it offered me a chance to meet a variety of ... oversees seven of MIT's women's+ organizations. I've never gone through

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to ... You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  favorite aspect was the set design: across the stage, a set of roughly twenty ... [by Xenia Antipova '13] The very first time I heard of Richard ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  intricacies of the process. I chose to design the t-shirt and posters, and I ... event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four ... of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006