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• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  's "Can I play in the Simmons ball pit????" (Yes, my dorm has a ball pit. Yes, I play in it during the year.) b) Ry and Dad are fans of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (which is one of the few things we disagree on - I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  because I was giddy. Also, I was helping out in whatever way I could. Our ... and ended up disappearing in each picture. However, I did get a nice ... makes it stylish; a perfect combination of aesthetics and performance, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  this in a single semester. However, I can honestly say that it was the ... eyes closed for this part so I didn't really see it in action, but the ... course reviews. ~150 Number of students in the class. 1,200 The number of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no ... (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  baby seals for fur. "I really started becoming active in middle school ... nice things that I do," she said. Ramanan wasted no time in submitting a ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  onto your cold-making box. I like to think about sticking-together rocks ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... these doors to control where the cats go in the house. Like this little

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  do these programs. As I've said in previous entries, a summer of ... in studying and exploring careers in science, engineering, and ... Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous academic program which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  reason, I will announce it here, but I do not foresee that happening at ... designated in your MyMIT account) is 2007. ----------------------------------- What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... . I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  in California. * The first mass demonstration against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... Weigel's two silver medals in the summer Olympics for speed walking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  Now blogging live from Mystery Hunt: FRIDAY [12:17 PM] Meet in Lobby 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the ... Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight at 12:31am Sunday in a refridgerator

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... interesting rather than what's easiest. So, of course, since I exhibit ... what I had due this week: Monday -- nothing Tuesday -- 21A.260 paper on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  ! I will probably write more about this later."]participating in hunt ... Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time ... little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I keep a postcard from home in my pocket it has sunshine and a picture of a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014