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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... adventure begins. Leg 2 (The Trinity) Prague to Moscow, Kiev or Istanbul The ... will be in the Ulaan Baatar area, all that will remain will be to sit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  , hanging out on campus, talking about my MIT experience, or reacting to the ... conversation and allowed us to meet someone!  Kyle: I’ve been recognized in ... excited to be in vlogs. It was just really cute. Shawn: I went playing golf

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... that the bike wasn't going to fall. In fact, it looked pretty cool up ... the space in the room, which meant we had very little room to maneuver

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... screaming or shaky cinematography can quite do justice to it. (Nor can any ... balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  publishing a paper in the coming month or so! I will be sure to update you all ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... engineer husband. (He proposed to me in Killian Court, and there was an entry ... being in California means that I needed to move, so I’ve moved out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the ... and in very irregular shapes. Once, I tried to fry eggs over medium, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  yes, "no kissing." Bryan walks to La Verde's in the Student Center to ... wearing gray and black. Everyone around him is dressed in red or similar ... Jones, I should be arrested. But in my defense, I have had a viral

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  certain occupations or in school; these ways of avoiding service seemed to ... happened in a way that is completely unrelated to people’s wages or intention ... might see in AP Micro or AP Macro. Economists study the economy very

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... ‘insignificant.’ In math contexts, though, ‘trivial’ generally refers to something that’s relatively simple or straightforward to show/prove. For example, a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  and there's also some doors that lead to Stata or the Green Building ... freshman you may have a class or two in 56. I had my HASS class there and a ... , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  , PhD, medical school, or just to hang out in the area (either working at ... my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  them to not be conducive to learning. In order to help teachers, we need ... materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... pedagogy together, there are tractable issues to solve in existing online

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... ’ve rocked out to her everywhere, on Rock Band at Alpha Delta Phi, in the ... Swift song in high school (which in Nigeria runs from grades seven to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... biotech companies to MIT campus (possibly for recruiting reasons or close ... ’s snowy out,[/annotation] when the leaves turn colors in the fall, or

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009