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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  later, I presented myself to my mother in shame, fully expecting to be ... kept on the highest shelf in the fridge. As I licked my spoon clean, I ... under control, she opened her mouth. I braced myself. In Tamil, she said

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that I don’t think I can handle anything Pi Day-related. We’re all headed ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my ... stuff, so I schedule it in. Essentially: there are no empty calendar days ... : white. I could wake up in the morning and think: "what do I feel like doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , we'll see if we can work it in. I can't wait to work with all of you ... , and I am nothing if not Serious - is Admissions Counselor for Web ... have joined together like a Megazord to become the new Ben. I don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  2.004 and focus on 2.006 so that I can get an A/B instead of what is ... means 6PM to Midnight rehearsals everyday. In addition, I also have a ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  .” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with ... validated all the work I put in trying to work through the nasty Klein

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  INSIDE" in Helvetica Bold Condensed. At first, I thought that the "FIRE ... Arial; we can tell even if it's blurry. Its header, "Facilities", is in ... bundled with Helvetica, but it does come with Arial. In fact, if you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... exam, and doing so well that I’d be confident enough with my standing in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  monologues that you can tell yourself the next time every bone and neuron in ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... really cool stories behind them? Neither did I! In the Wiesner Building are ... that I’m going crazy to think that of all things, benches can be

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... reasons. Reason #1 (a.k.a. the 'good' one): I was a debater in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... of (mostly) ugly clothing. I had a general color scheme in mind, and we ... shoot in the basement of East Campus. I was inspired by the different

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys! ... Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... several thousand prospective students in our Info Sessions. Still, the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the ... who thought this was a good idea, I'm very disappointed in you. ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... heat pumps.  In the three weeks, I have mostly just snuggled and fed and ... that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... successful in either instance as i’m still inexperienced in writing music, but ... bias, but what can you really do about it"].[/annotation] then i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while ... inside. But until then, I’ll try not to look anything directly in its eyes.... ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015