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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  ’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I ... I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  stairs once you get to the end of the hallway. Unfortunately, this concept ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that ... of notes to self. And with that, I will try to get those 7 hours of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  just can't seem to take it all in, you feel like you Have Truly Found ... School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the ... and their effect in the English language would have you believe, I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... -192. Alan: So we moved in the opposite direction, to a large, nondescript ... to go down in a horror movie. Clean white walls, no natural light, a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of ... GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the size of the dent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  because I relish the time I get to spend spacing out and basking in the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... walk back across the Harvard Bridge to get to my apartment. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... to apply with the research abstract? Is there a competitive edge in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque ... never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide ... watching Animo, below, in person with my jaw dropping to the floor. https ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  will take. In addition, I want to get a concentration in Music." I ... When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really ... 're due, long lapses in my responses to friends, having to miss events i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... problem and having to work together to solve it in the most creative way

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... !). You put air in one end of the pipe to blow a bubble in the glass on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the ... properties either those inherent to the cell or those in the local environment

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... siRNAs to prevent and treat influenza virus infection in mice. If all ... strains. My role in the project is to figure out how to deliver these si

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009