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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  weeks in Beijing, starting on the 29th of May, as an intern for the ... part of a special program for undergraduates in physical chemistry ... my last two weeks, I will be traveling throughout China, probably to Xi'an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  've considered myself an environmentalist for over a decade, and if there's one ... who preach about the environment in an elitist or antagonistic manner. I ... info in future entries as I learn more, but for now I'll just say that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  an island in the middle of it,” says Karl Haglund PhD ’97, author of ... -minute multimillion-dollar gift from an anonymous individual known for years only as "Mr. Smith ... location, they contemplated many options, including an island in the Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  Phone Branding in China European Panel: What Europe? Catalan Lessons with ... companies are looking for students in your major, and for what kind of ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  only one with an odd taste in graphic design. I got this email in the ... Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP ... .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let ... author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  (CPT). Obtaining this authorization at MIT may sound straightforward in ... in materials science. Believe it or not, this was an incredibly good ... authorization that is an integral part of an established curriculum and is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  machine in the Hobby Shop for smoothing out wood. Andrea: pokemon lamp ... This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  in use, though, as other groups, labs, and classes use it for research ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and ... ’s advice on how MIT could best explore its historical connections in this ... immediately endorsed his proposal: to develop an ongoing undergraduate primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  occasionally law school, looking for places to live in their new found location ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it ... a degree in Chinese, but I have to go for another year to finish my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak ... freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround ... based on these data alone,” the senior officers added in their letter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... study over Christmas and Easter break. In fact, for engineers, the exams ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  in Maryland, building cameras for telescopes. The woman to my right ... authorized bounds. There are many organizations lobbying on Capitol Hill for a ... should be an entitlement. Politicians speak in anecdote. Be a memorable

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... video In October, traveled to Shanghai to be at my company’s China ... course...)  Startups are hard. I worked long hours, and while in China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... life, so much so in fact, that for the rest of this week, I am no longer ... , even if you're not planning on living in an east side dorm, you should

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... experiences in great detail. As a Jeopardy contestant, and even more so as an ... -generation American. As an only child, Lilly, as she describes it, grew up in their labs

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017