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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  pictures of as many student groups as I could. Below, find a collage of 79 ... Friday was the annual Activities Midway, a hugely popular Orientation ... were on hand for the event. You can click here to view the entire list

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a ... opportunity I couldn't pass up. I took a leap of faith and was ready to be out

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  outreach, and that I was planning to find ways to incorporate that into a ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... , because despite 26-100 being a gigantic lecture hall, nobody thought to make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  are absolutely phenomenal. A year ago, when asked to write up a brief ... really fit in at MIT? I attended CPW hoping to find the answer to this ... desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap ... out of their own pocket. So, a shoutout to them, and all the wonderful

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  for genetic changes linked to different types of addiction. After a ... stuff back to Ohio. I stayed in Ohio for a week and a half, then my ... paper we submitted to Cell. My postdoc taught me a bunch of different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What schools can I cross-register with?

  If you find something that you're interested in studying that isn't available at MIT, you have the option to cross-register at Harvard, Wellesley College, and MassArt.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  the last pset got assigned, I legitimately could not start to answer a ... failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... mind just refused to work on a project if it knew it could finish it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  ,[/annotation] but struggled for a month or two to find out why. Apparently this issue ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  a pub crawl. Next day: Find a good spot to write! + Run around the ... find my old journals. A lot of the things I've learned — how to eat ... that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... 've done 3, so I have 3 to go."]a couple[/annotation]classes, but my duties ... don't yet know in a location I don't yet know. I’ll be moving in to a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night ... picture, and there's a good chance that you'll find yourself*: *This ... -weary muscles to give its prefrosh a weekend worth remembering. “The whole nine

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can balance out my weaknesses. That is, you need to be able to: 1. Drive like a ... brocade print. The skirt opens at the front to reveal a slightly shorter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  :30am and time to find Rep Clark’s office. I hyperventilate a little bit ... people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... science and engineering organizations, waiting for Rep. Holt to give a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... 'easter to liven up a winter weekend. Questions: 1. Jay asked, "Hey Mollie ... summers ago to develop a certain kind of airplane on his own. But most of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  major--she's just a minor! My own connection to political science is even more tenuous (I was pretending to be Ruth's date and she's a minor) but ... that posting them here would be a little gratuitous. Suffice to say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... screws appear to be in their right holes, in a 10 hour marathon lab day ... ? Maybe 5%. And it's a good thing, I think. Because, really, you will find

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... the second day in a row. he was my teammate. i sat next to him three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015