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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... you know that the original Uncle Sam was born near Boston?) I headed to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... obtain medical sponsorships for war-injured Iraqi children and to forge ... liberal arts college provide more opportunities for learning about the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  going to be challenging for me, because we're already dealing with things ... , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  People often seem to think that going to an elite school ... undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  effort for something that didn't end up looking too great. I mean, I had to ... want to get better. That's something that I failed to grasp for so long ... 'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  move on from here. -- To me, summer has always been the time for some ... to share another project I have for the summer; I bought it as a ... . Like I wrote in my bio, even though I'm probably going to be "Jenny" for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  looking for something to do, you virtually guaranteed to find something ... for the Skullhouse brothers and pledges to invite friends over to our ... to get busy for me and my fellow waiters. We spent the next hour almost

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  unsurprised to find that Mitra had almost exactly the same experience except for ... -mail to a professor asking for a UROP position or recommendation and you ... of 5.12 for Spring 2004, which hangs on my door to this day. Most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for ... 't, oops!); coded for fun (also meant to do that and didn't); wrote something

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  , despite it being less relevant to the career paths I see for myself. Course ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  have to sign up for Glass Lab offerings through a lottery. The lucky ones ... ! They belong to the Course 3 Laboratory for Microstructure Design (due to ... and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  research and just applied to grad school for media studies? Why am I going ... walkthroughs for video games or even tutoring videos that were guides to how to ... , begging for more time because I understand now what it feels like to run out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  website for WILG, and it occurred to me that this almost certainly wouldn ... principle remains. I’m still young, and there’s so much I want to do for ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the ... GEL staff have already said they want to keep this activity for next ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  upperclassmen scrambling to finish their quantum problem sets also provided for ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... Hawaii sell Spam.” I, however, sorely lack his flair for distinguishing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core ... has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015