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• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions ... children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... list of nearby colleges that I could work off of (and a list of college

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  while I ignore the box o' meds under my bed and see if you can hook me up ... 's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... senioritis or my loathing of AP Stats and yes, I would go see my doctor if she

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  have slipped out. I'm not that much of a cynic in real life, promise ... to a few new faces? So I asked the good folks in the MIT Class of 2012 ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  direction. I stumbled left. Ashley stopped, and tapped her feet in front of ... our limbs in a variety of directions. I thought of my first swim lesson ... workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... know, but it's true!) 1 This made me think of two things I've read in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those ... in this video. * I sent 107 emails having to do with the i3 over the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  at nerd camp for the rest of the week. After that, I'll be back in ... vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a ... in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to ... MIT, heck I was making board games out of cardboard in high school. But

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  and other elements of engineering leadership that I’m learning in GEL ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  schools jointly occupied the position of "dream school." I included both in ... Tonight, I'll post the first of the reports back from this week's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I ... vignette of her in LEGO.     I made also...Katherine Johnson

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  reviews and more. Note: I think Manning only teaches it in the spring; I can ... . Even if none of these things were true, I would recommend that everyone ... grade in the class, or my bitching about all-nighters, that I thought this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school ... snippets of Marvel things I did in my first semester: [*] saw filming of ... restaurant (Chik-fil-A) in the first line of my email “to demonstrate that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... in my classes. Thankfully, I was able to pass all of my classes (18.01A ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain ... , including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  right on the north side of lobby 7). When I walked in, I was greeted with ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018