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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  reason is that I have a river view and the sunrise is always spectacular ... linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a ... West Side Story, released in 1961. I'm a huge West Side Story fan, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  , a lab project that I would only see the results of in 10 years didn ... on.  And what’s even more special is that I didn’t have to do any of ... . The product we built in 2.009 is a powered respiratory system that could

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  ... 16 points. Ninety-six. That's right. =) See, I'm improving! In fact, I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about ... about that. I got the sizzling chicken and cheese, like I do every time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  I want in the future. Not that I’m sure what that is. I like to learn ... is obviously a thing people do, or try to do, but that simple ideal ... able to do the job I want. Definitely a lot of it came from the fact that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  , then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I ... . And I saw an ostrich across the street from a Chinese restaurant in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good ... to wear college rings. No, I don’t think so. (Is that lore comparing ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write ... Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  feminine pastime. Anyways, I'm glad that Metropolis is legitimizing craft as ... electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby ... that I just really enjoy learning physics, doing problems, etc. Physics ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned ... ,[/annotation] that there is a limit to that is rough. But it's also important. In my ... , that was a sign that I shouldn’t do any more deadlifts, because my body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  do the bulk of 8.033 on Thursday nights, so that I just have a couple ... thing I can do is recognize that given the circumstances, I'm making do ... precautions that do remain, though, this semester feels incredibly normal in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  that I can do more hands-on work in a non-class setting (side note - yes ... this 7-ish weeks later, still in disbelief that I survived. But let ... get something that worked so I could turn it in and move on to the next

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a rigorous four-week summer academic experience that introduces 20 high school
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the content that is submitted? Would the series gain momentum? As I often do ... The Summer…? Every Story is a Story That Ought To Be Shared As much as I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  active is ESP. I talked about Splash, a program that ESP runs, at length on ... IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... a lot of them on my schedule. One of them, I guess, is a waltz class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... things yourself. i've learned that even when i'm in a "leadership position ... -y responsibilities between them. i think what matters more is that a team shares the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped ... helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate ... Design related program in Israel. The city: I was exposed to a great

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  at I understand why Paulo Coehlo is a contentious figure in Brazilian ... former [annotation note="Putz is a hall in East Campus, one of MIT's dorms ... please. I've done this route before and I still got confused (or is this a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... saying "Hey look! I'm published!" is really going to make a difference. It ... 've been told that the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference is a Big Deal, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  worth doing, but...it's just not that special. Which is why I've decided ... , that's a nice reasonable list. In case you're wondering, I've done 24 of ... curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005