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• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... ’m a senior, and he’s a junior. We still live in the same floor of Random ... in the optional Maker Portfolio of his admissions application). MIT was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  "crew chief" who has a lot of experience and runs the calls, and a second ... enough experience to work as second riders.) After a lot of exploring the ... .... I'm the newest member of the IS&T (Information Services and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities ... overall, the Law of Conservation of Sleep (or the Work-Tiredness Theorem

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media ... slowly become free of typoes and weird errors and become literally the most ... this reflected in all of the nice graphs that Github provides based on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... the pockets of my lab coat. (I work with mice, and I love them. Rats are ... written "Students Exempt from the Test" and a list of names. And sure enough

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... , the height of a loft—evaporated within hours. When I moved my head, my ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  "]clone[/annotation] something new every day. steven introduces me to the rest of the team, which ... gives me my first small task. steven explains one of the services that our ... codebase"]pull request[/annotation] before the end of the day. getting a pr

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the ... a LOT of television to pass the time. I could hum The Simpsons' theme

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was ... absolutely love an encore – but this time, under the protection of Johnson ... exciting event at MIT last weekend. The Chinese Students Club (CSC) hosted

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... light, is definitely by far the fewest number of units I've stood to ... objective was to use the doppler shift of the ultra-sharp 21cm hydrogen line

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of ... development of improved sports equipment. Kim Blair, the center's director ... . Last fall, equipment designers from Specialized, one of the leading high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... catch a break. I'm getting a little tired of the "studying harder than I ... .02 exam back in December. It's becoming easy to fall into the trap of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this ... out of slumber during the two-hour ride from Ahmedabad's airport to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... % of the student body is enrolled in a music class*. We have a Pulitzer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  , it's just not mental or technical. It's physical labor of the purest ... caulking the exterior of our house, mowing fields, and generally being tired ... together a quick demo of a rough cut. The satelite overlay isn't there yet

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... condition (e.g. "In 2000, an estimated 73% of the population lived below the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007