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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . 3. Trying to order earbuds and a cast iron skillet from Amazon.com. I ... reproductive cycle than I ever thought possible from Caroline '08, a trombonist ... DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  from a proper distance. With welding, your gloves begin to heat up four ... idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... street, where a massive CNC machine chatters and hums. You’re breathing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  better idea of what I want from MIT than (dare I say) a whole lot of my classmates. I came from a rural area where education wasn’t especially valued ... CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  different from stereotypical contemporary art (i.e. a painting hanging on a ... .com This picture is from a line drawing with balloons that Haacke did in ... releasing a lot of balloons from the roofs of the main campus buildings. There

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... . It's a great example showing everything I'm talking about! 1. Begin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic ... a bit absent from the blogs lately. It's not from a lack of ideas of ... active force in my life; an ability to initiate things waking up from a

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

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  expected, I sighed with relief and took a LONG nap on my flight from DFW to Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... campus was like returning home from a long long absence. Basically, I WAS

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  funny walking habits from wearing the boot: swinging my leg like a club ... that, I finally felt like a great weight had been lifted from me. After ... and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  young. You haven’t even graduated from college yet.” Being in a serious ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice ... somewhat expensive. But I wasn’t sure what his intentions were: was this a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  pass beneath it, I shudder. For years, I had admired it from a distant ... . Every day I marvel at their stories. There is a boy on my floor from a ... his community. There is a also girl from Hong Kong whose face lights up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  world from different perspectives, and a lot of times the words we use don ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  uncomfortable. From my experience, albeit a limited one, I’d much rather imagine ... MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk. The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  !). As it turns out, my office isn't very far away from where I live. Being able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still does involve a commute ranging anywhere from 20-25 miles - and that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  from CPW in the Rainbow Lounge the morning before, where I relaxed in a ... After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... a bad thing, and she wasn”t saying that we can”t fully use and enjoy

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m working on the last project, and the a couple people from the South Florida ... Fridays) and the architectural angle of the course. Aside from a seminar ... Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  [by Joan Horvath '81] "What do you DO all day?" There's a certain furtiveness when someone asks a scientist or engineer this question: perhaps it ... likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... 3 axes. You can do lots of cool things on a milling machine- from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my ... nice. So another lady at Walmart used a piercing gun (which requires

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and found a postcard from my beloved high school friend Shana telling me ... longest vertical distance from which a grape has been dropped and then ... linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a

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

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a ... , but it's not so bad. Usually there's a guest speaker from some other ... 're working on. So for example, a few weeks ago we heard from the person who is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008