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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and ... accessing sites on the network and those on the outside unable to access the ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... Conner 2 (2nd floor, Conner side of Burton-Conner dorm) and I no longer had ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... would cost me around $500, and I was on a student budget. But what if I built my own? I could easily make the entire camera (used lens and all

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... relative to your beginning knowledge base and your overall effort within the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you ... , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  to go through and answer them all tonight... unless they were so ... and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... dodgeball match tonight and afterward we're having a post-dodgeball fondue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  fragile and raw, and I had to protect that. But, the chaos of life has subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this ... it something? Yes! And is there value in writing, again and again

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music, and of course the titular runway show. Planning MIT Gala is a yearlong effort, culminating in one joyful night of celebrating art and ... begins at 8AM, and the event starts at 5PM, so come with me as we go behind

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  clings and clangs of construction (because Boston-Cambridge is always under ... close enough, cutting through the chit-chat and the murmurs of the ... , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and orange with my sunflower tapestry and comforter. I also bought a blue ... choice because the colors made no sense together and she moved out after a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is ... pizza and Indian food, we raved about how much [annotation note="I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my UROP mentor and elaborating on just how inspirational and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... observed but did not participate in. I swung on a rope swing and stacked milk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  access it here. You can review the dates and deadlines for this year's application cycle here. As you consider when and how you want to apply, please ... are still dealing with delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  Gabrieli. He's an incredibly intelligent and engaging professor that has some of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  general vibe is very modern and clean and shiny. Beyond that, though... I ... , through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start ... amoeba shaped cutouts that are just so weird and vaguely remind me of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I feel much more comfortable with navigating Cambridge and Boston. Here are ... 's super fun to hang out at and also makes for an unconventional date spot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... don't know who I am, and I don't know who you are, but we'll make it

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... , thinking about final assignments and projects for the semester, thinking about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019