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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... in Cambridge, so I guess that interaction was a success (he got to ... of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... a Kiln Cartridge while the lower chamber serves to anneal the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... international students at ISEF, I will be presenting a shoptalk: Admission to US ... (rescheduled from 1pm) Ruidoso Room In a session designed specifically for ISEF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  to make the university happy. Eventually, this engagement will end in a ... Abstract Ring Delivery is a time-honored tradition in which Massachusetts ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner ... a little late, but I hope you did well! In my haste to schedule my ... wikipedia page I linked to. Also, a HASS is MIT lingo for a class in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  died in his sleep when I was 10, back when I was barely able to hold a ... to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just… couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  couple hours in the dining hall because I want a new space to work. And I ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... [/annotation] since coming to MIT. A game is incredibly long – I have only played the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... : one, a professional grey to match my shirt, and the other a neon yellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  were the views. We even got to go to a gay pride parade in Tel Aviv ... 've had to give a very modified schedule in order to keep people in the air ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life-inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big ... fading part of the curve, they may be too faint to see in our images for a ... tragic. after meeting, we continued to work in the conference room for a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  [annotation note="I am extremely lucky, and my apologies to everyone else"]only had a ... (blog post to come, hopefully, but it might be a while 😅 ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist ... students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... combining two images together in a way that looks seamless and natural as

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just ... things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... ! My wife wanted me to share this link with you, in case you have a ... principle of enrolling a maximum of one third of our class in EA. Recent

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008