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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... Andrew Luck:     This is unquestionably a tribute to me ... Ben and Stu once grew beards throughout a reading season, I am, to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... prototypes to the winner, $10,000 for 2nd place, and $1,000 for 3rd place. A ... complete access to a patent attorney, a patent (if patentable), market

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  opportunities kept coming. I used to dread dancing the way a lobster dreads lemon ... juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... to an institute of technology that costs more than $45,000 a year to

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... we shorten to ICE (because we're so cool.) ICE is a capstone senior ... biological engineering. To "prove your worth" to the department and earn a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... outside, round-a-bout way to the library and promise that when I'm done and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  him English, and we had a blast hanging out. It was nice to know a true ... whole reason I was in Paris was to work at Institut Curie, a biomedical ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  a presence about her that people are drawn to," he said. The Hometown ... grant application to the Dutchess County Arts Council for a series of ... exhibited a willingness to donate her time and effort to help others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no ... after a while more of a mostly-isolated lifestyle something were to tick

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... 'm qualified to be here because I am a black man in America, and that does not ... 'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... wrong with it.) I learned how to use a power drill and table saw at the ... how to fix them when they “break.” Since the human body seemed to be a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an ... college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll* Obviously a college dorm room is not ideal to demonstrate interior design

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; work last IAP, I tried to UROP but applied for a random one that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just ... been to eat healthier food that costs less money, with a weekly exception ... our cheat day to Saturday and had clam chowder (which is apparently a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the ... to one of my (actually Jewish) friends as a novelty item. So then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... bought a dinosaur sleeper for a girl. And why not? Girls are allowed to ... blood glucose after a carb meal -- high blood sugar is supposed to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... Kerberos realm. I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I spent a couple of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... .  False lashes The lashes were a pain to apply. The picture above was the ... pull my braid down, but that hiccup added a few minutes to installing

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021