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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... subsidized to a mere CHF 500-600.-, probably the only reasonably-priced expense

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete with a nice swimming pool, and even though we had to inflate a couple of ... . The tennis team has always seemed like a second family to me and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... to a fraternity or sorority, and only 2 are from the east side of ... hours while people tried to figure out where to buy a ring. And perhaps

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... , since there's nothing odd about a mental reply to inanimate objects. MIT ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a ... ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  install a window AC in any dorm -- and you don't have to pay for electricity ... Gregor, you have to do a little bit of maneuvering since the windows in the high ... anymore. If I need to learn a new protocol, I usually ask one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  a client that was looking for a way to use his iPhone to take steady ... injury with limited fine motor skills and it turned out to be a very ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... snazzy, something that I would still enjoy. I didn't want to spend a ton of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or ... literally consumes my life. I complain sometimes - okay a lot - but deep

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... ... The MIT admissions blogs are, as a whole, supposed to convey a diverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more entertaining than making a pile of clothes to give to Goodwill while singing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  proceeded to…well…post a blog? And, that's it. I think we all learned ... So, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... to sleep. But there is learning to be done! So I make a mental note to ... classes ended, I ate a quick lunch and hurried off to my writing tutor

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate ... intended to support a student in a full-time course of study." In other words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  is mine. [annotation note="sometimes blogs take a long time to write ... .  But let’s go a bit further back, to that Monday, the precipice of the ... already quite colorful, but it needed something to give it a bit more warmth

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026