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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  pathos for the metaphoric childhood of a scientific field. Yet, as soon as ... preparing for this. Guy in Seat 17A: What are you snacking on? Me (eating ... with this guy for a commercial on public television.) Half an hour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I ... Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  Saturday afternoon, but it was perfect for a warm cup of almond-coconut hot ... STOP: Pearl Art. I needed to pick up some stuff for a Valentine's Day ... at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  still seems like too weighty a decision for a single Google Form. i ... good chance i'll be in Israel for at least a month, which is super ... summer in Israel; living with my six roommates has been a constant for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there a medical facility on campus?

  MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete ... community. Our on-campus resources provide personalized care for MIT students ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  -of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that living-learning communities provide. The office works to promote a cohesive
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  .09 (Theoretical Mechanics) as the replacement for 8.351 and as a second technical ... you recall was a miracle for me to get into, followed by 8.09. A solid ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don ... M. '12 poses for a photo with his debate class. Oh, it gets dark here ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New York Times; also, Ben and I had a nice conversation about the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems. A stimulating morning. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  mentioned a few posts ago that I was taking pistol class for PE - and that our ... Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave ... innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... this for grad school applications.) Learning me a Haskell for great

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  of us. Wait until you apply for jobs... then you don't even receive a ... Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  , the BPL, MIT, everything. After flying around for a bit we came back ... thanked the Deans for coming out. After a few quick pictures (which found ... [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  apply for a radio show with me? Friday night, I went to a going ... , Wednesday, the pre-Orientation program I'll be a counselor for begins, and we ... won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how ... joints will fit snugly after getting cut out. For a polygon with n sides

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  "likely admit" letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... admissions offers for these schools won't be sent out for a long time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  for the future, and providing a method of income generation.” Alia also ... -Sevana artist by donating $50 in cash or beads per quarter for at least a year. In ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006