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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  explain is if the character dies in a random act of violence rather than in ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... like the Harry Potter phenomenon now. Harry Potter is a massive mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go ... floppiness is, we must first understand some differential geometry. In

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand escape, a song that features prominently in weathering with you, one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  getting into the weeds, this decision is a longstanding dilemma in devising ... -threatening hemorrhage in a matter of minutes at delivery (which is why it was once known ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a headstart in that regard. However, no transition is without a few roadblocks ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ZigZag Episode 6 A new video podcast.

  

  ZigZag again was fun. It was a beautiful day in Killian Court, and hopefully it will be that nice again for Commencement (a.k.a. graduation ... Episode 6 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is available today. Stories

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at ... required to take me out to a romantic dinner -- perhaps in the North End

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  model for ulcerative colitis, a type of IBD, through her UROP in the ... created a mouse model for the Th2 form of IBD by creating a Th2 response in ... affected by the genetics of the mouse or the pathogen. Issel is majoring in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news ... from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit ... Nice was spend a night in our Pension Grillparzer-esque hostel, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... accomplishment in a video game. -An awesome lab -A picture you feel best embodies the phrase "FAIL" -A brass rat in the wild! -A new (still shrink wrapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  , as some may say). in my freshman year, i was kicked off campus a few ... incredible. this year, there were a few locations in consideration for my ... were planning on going there. however, a lot of people in my group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  . He is now a partner for Square Peg Capital in Boston, and he gave the freshmen a run-down of interesting industries and opportunities in the ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  , which she spent managing a pottery studio on an island in Washington. It ... could do a thesis, but again, it doesn't fit in my schedule, and besides, I'm not a writing major. I sit in a graduate-level cryptography class

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... lab is in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Thinking back ... and is wrapping up his PhD in Astronomy. There’s also Mike Xiang, who

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  responsibility," he says, "especially like in my family in Georgia. My mom is a ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of ... , the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... of 7 laps in 4 minutes (tying with the best score), and we were only a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  research. Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, is a ... internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  . Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your ... a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  is (seemingly) taking more. I came across a previous blogger's post ... productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017