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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  . Weekdays are a blur of work and socialization, with lines between the two ... nights of no sleep. Everything is shockingly clear in those hours, yet the ... don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... yellows and oranges, MIT has shed the appearance of normal university and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... world, and the feeling of making something that gets used around the world ... touch with some of my friends who I met at the other Cambridge 🇬🇧

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT ... my friends. As a bonus, the keynote speaker was Ryan North, writer of ... River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... probably assuages the pain of full-body checking, which might be one reason ... they were in braids for the photo.) Each of the 19 glass panels on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the ... harness out of elastic bands and O rings:  Making the harness required ... length of a forearm and the height of two mugs.”  Tulle was kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... there was a preview button. For all the inconveniences of the analog ... , I’ve never used it on manual. But observing the effects of exposure

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... Cancer Research Polly Guggenheim of the MIT Media Lab Personal Robotics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  went to the Top of the Hub (the 52nd floor of the Prudential Center ... Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring, check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... do our own correlation studies," said Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of ... poll the names of people who were available. (Oops) Cue a second Google

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... North Dakota. Of foreign countries, China tops the list. The only one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT ... , and even more. The fact that all of these individuals helped replicate

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our ... importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... my room, the smell of rush burgers and cigarettes that I never smoked

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts ... ? To see the rest of the article, you'll have to subscribe to Discover

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006