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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  dorm I stayed in took me on a tour of the dorm, and by the time we ... some cans in it, and I politely asked, "Is the pop in there for everybody ... in the middle of a term when I was taking 60 units, b) it covered

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  Potter earrings,” said my little sister.  In truth, I’d thought of zero of these things. I simply had some copper plate and a bandsaw in front of me ... paperbacks in the 1970’s. As a cross country runner, I have poured hours of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in ... pleased, resulting in an ever-changing amalgam of graffiti, text, and images

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  them mail them to people they knew outside the city. I was, of course ... mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit ... fact: His office doors are covered in pictures of his former students and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF. The table at dinner. In ... , I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects. Anneke '10 at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  like all of them. Not yet. Even now, I can’t really explain why I came to ... I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the ... Hospital in Springfield, a nearby city in Massachusetts. I had always been

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  all of my colleagues in Admissions and across MIT have those people ... time for everyone; I've been at the verge of tears over this awful, awful situation. The feeling of anguish and helplessness can be overwhelming. Life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... proportions of aquaporins in a cell are   2:41 am: today I learned that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few ... .5 years of our lives and relationship in there. Although I'm really excited ... because of the pandemic. I never would have started running, or lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... slides can legitimately remind you of the day you discovered Paint in ... On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  , I bravely forged ahead, conscious of increased workload in other areas ... doing well in all of my classes, but I felt somewhat that my hand had also ... troubled me. Upon reflection, I realized that—in spite of the number of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  minute work in. Wednesday - 9/15 Before Class I practiced a little bit of ... beginning of school year B) Working in Stud5 (7-9) I then studied/worked in ... . Working in Stud5 (12-1) I worked on the fifth floor of the Student Center

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying ... 's just the act of putting my phone down when i've been stuck in a scrolling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can ... I'm in reading mode. I listen to CD 101.9, which always reminds me of ... minimum of a half-gallon of iced green tea day. I brew it in mason jars in

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023