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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  white highlights like the sparkles rising from a campfire set against the ... a place familiar to me, to rediscover and see new things in those ... my friends from Putz, my living community in East Campus, and this

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  dinner at sometimes. We'd take a Lyft from work straight to the diner, eat ... power." "Is that from a twelve-step program?" Rohan asked. "Why would I ... one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  with items from my to do list is not a very healthy mindset and that i ... am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... up to a truly unbearable amount, but there would be gaps to breathe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about.  Why?  Because I've let life slow down a bit since graduating.  On campus ... great!  If you ignore the average 1.5 hour each way commute I have to/from

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  whole CPW evening cleaning the grease-covered pans left over from a day of ... burns from the professor’s resident surgeon son. After a quick post ... THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  cpw 2026 camera roll dump three mysteries and two tributes

  

  weekend, and this was a nice way to cap it. More soon —  from me, and ... At Meet the Bloggers this year, a prefrosh came up to me and saw my ... was, but it's who I've become, for a variety of reasons. Maybe sometime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  tinkerers  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  . It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from ... The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... and back to satisfy a late-night ginger soda craving actually, finally ... , i see you MOSTEC...) driven a zipcar full of friends out to westford

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  reason, I assumed that holding a camera and walking around campus would ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  music scene from world-famous Senegalese drummers. I'm failing at a way to ... 'm doing it. As an undergrad I played with a drumming group called Rambax ... ? Sponsored by some generous donations from several departments at MIT, we were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  cancer from a truly innovative approach. But like all things at MIT, what really impresses me is the way MIT understands how a wonderful art exhibit ... winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  your viewing pleasure, here's a set of photos from Laasya ~ all photo ... northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem, MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  -electron-beam lithography. The lab features a combination of professors and students from ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a ... club, is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Music, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  journeying, you go toward a dam, which prevents you from going over a waterfall ... , but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  projects, do those last minute problem sets, and perhaps design a wind ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  2005 issue! MURJ is a student-run journal that publishes articles about ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen ... Therapy? A Cardiac Risk Assessment of Hormone as Medication (by Dejah

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  , for giving me a seven-minute "cellcert" of "When Doves Cry" from Clay ... -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... "Sunshowers" by M.I.A. "I bongo with my lingo and I beat it like a wing, yo" 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... only recall one fisherman (fisherperson?) from the thousands of applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004