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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  thought it best to process those in private, in the pages of my paper ... fragile and raw, and I had to protect that. But, the chaos of life has ... . For most of the summer, I interned at the Berkeley National Lab on novel

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  of things at MIT. Classes. Psets. Exams. Eventually, you'll learn the ... open mind. You'll never know what new opportunities might come out of the new things you try and the people you meet. Take care of yourself

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... technologies and the distribution power of the Web, fan communities are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines ... going through the same practice exams over and over again, but at this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... happening across campus. Dressed as V, the enigmatic anti-hero of V for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... 've plumbed the details of syn addition, Markovnikov's rule, carbocation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... ) while trying to maximize the happiness of the matches based on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk about this in public channels by residents, alumni, friends of the Haus

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"     ... Sky Sculptures. Helium explores the “spatialisation of sensibility ... , climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Summer Glau. Speaking of winning, here are the winners:     So congratulations Elizabeth and Mohammed (respectively) you're the winners of the ... Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... Theater: Scenery The final component of my theater arts concentration. This ... get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  . All of the [annotation note="we use the word spread to refer to one coherent project, usually taking up 5-10 pages of the magazine ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] the cover of Infinite Issue 9, shot by Kidist '22. model

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... "] John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum, where he devises the theory of ... manuscripts from the School of Kerala, which showed their work in calculus and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really ... the small of your back, if you know what I mean. MTG (and MIT's other ... that inevitably follow) possible. It's only one of the many memories I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not ... th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first ... different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  's been lots of other exciting news, including the production of the first 1,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One ... technology into the hands of millions of the world's poorest children. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006