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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  my apple pie from the restaurant with a straw because there were no ... prospective students were from MIT. Think about how unlikely that is just from a ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  and nay; a good and bad from our life as of recently. At a marketing ... photography is different from digital photography in that it requires a lengthy ... , recovering from a sprained ankle. But let it be known that I could do a pull

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  ="64780" /] Over the voice call, Paolo, a frosh from my wing, and I talk to a ... in terms of walking and public transit; it helps me get from point A to ... which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  darting from office door to office door trying to get someone to make me a ... Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the chase. On April 30th, from 11am – 4pm, MIT will be offering 160 different ... ? How about a puzzle hunt at the MIT Museum written specially for MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... against Brazil. I had a good cry about it and vowed that I would never

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  -sentence. Thank you, me-from-2015. Let me try that again. Once a year, thousands ... small dashes of whimsy make it go from a list of puzzles to magic. The ... the mines content, here's everything I have from then: One week ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  (actually right across from the new admissions building) and a decent enough distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in ... - like a 7 min walk from campus and is very homey, did most of my major

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from ... Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... they simply “believe in.” He told me a story about a Rhodes Scholar from ... ’t be too surprised because I remembered this MIT News Office article from

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  from the light source. It's a phenomenon that is so epic, particularly ... Imagine, if you will, the following situation... You join a dense crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  camera that more-than-kind-of looks like a droid from The Clone Wars, of ... found myself a new neck and decided to consume a mango from the MIT Farmer ... from Telephone where she walks into a Tarantino film and poisons the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the ... strive to: - provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including allies - achieve a better sense of community with its cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in ... My sister graduated college a few weeks ago, which meant two things ... after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  a lot of my actions, and those personal expectations vary from ... Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of ... buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from ... being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of blogging once a week. Sophomore year, this has become decidedly more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you ... through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009