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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  route that loops from Reykjavík into central Iceland and back. It hits a ... . The Svartifoss waterfall. A panorama from the Sjónarnípa viewpoint ... columns of Vík's beach. Our cabin was a five-minute walk from this area

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... " but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  family lives in a small rented adobe two blocks from my sister's elementary school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas ... -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  , and because if an FSILG moves to a new house, as some of them do from ... building looks like a robot monster from a bad sci-fi movie. Not traditional ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  dropped on a field from a helicopter. How cool is that? That’s the kind of ... . The local Club provides a calming MIT away from MIT. We talk about work ... time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  , a collective gasp went up from the crowd (along with fearful yelps and held breaths from we the team members) as Corn Dog yelped a loud SNAP and ... took home a few lessons from the competition. Predominant is the fact

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great Gatsby as a video game?? So cool. After doing a little digging around, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... / : -verb to calm down; to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension ... graduate school, and there are a million questions running through my head

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas ... Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  that you should read.) A week later, I received an email from the Music ... enters the concert hall after a brief introduction from Jacob. TL;DR: This ... a three-octave range.) They played the following two songs from Hush

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which ... . So, instead, let's rewind a bit. As you may know, I graduated from the ... as I pursue a [annotation note="as you may have noticed from the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... to a stop, and thinking: if the car had come at me directly from the ... mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  her elective courses. To steal a blurb from the course website, though ... artificial intelligence, there was a healthy mix of students from all different ... subjects are all required, and they cover a variety of topics ranging from

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... involved the creation of an automated phone system from scratch as well as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... single rooms. MacGregor may not look like much from the outside (it ... . The dorm as a whole shares several facilities, such as the laundry room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  be a new direction, branching out from fantasy fiction. Speaking in ... sauce came from a can; how he counted in Spanish when he went up the rows ... and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  your mouth. From what I've gathered online, what happens is that the top ... . They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their ... getting these. It was definitely when I was a teenager, but I'm not sure if

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  points: there's a page headed with the phone number from MIT Medical ... crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  from ideal, and the ride was a bit shaky. The cadet next to me vomited up ... ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  returning from the trip, she and a group of three other students decided to ... type of manufacturing system is called a re-entry system, where a silicon wafer re-enters the system with a higher priority each time it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006