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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  (after having let us have a crack at it first) of the same documents that ... will candidly admit - we may not be the most well-prepared when it comes ... grandmother tells me stories of how she evacuated from China with my grandfather

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  up how long it would take to bike the 20 miles home. 2 hours. That ... from that experience, it’s how to keep pushing up hills. Lately I’ve been ... Wish I could explain it better --- Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  also want to evaluate my choice based on how it will impact others and ... at night, and how much bigger the sky is when you can see it touch the ... , I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... Myers–Briggs personality types. It stands for introversion, intuition ... new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  isn't really losing at all, is it? At least that's how I think of it ... Okay, so it's like this, right. Pictures and backlogged entries are ... 'll make it. I'm writing my paper on the dynamical (SO(4) rotational group

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... ? Well, actually I didn't live far from Chicago, so it wasn't as bad as I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  underarms say: forget about it. It does feel good to be so sore. I obviously ... , coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a ... before noon; I figured that even though classes start at ten past, it would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  ="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it ... sense of it. It was simply a train that wrapped around Disneyland to help ... enthralled by one of the most boring attractions at the park. At first, it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  MIT was 3 hours long. I sent a photography portfolio and a supplemental ... wittled the list down to must-haves and can't-live-withouts and it made a ... 're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  rockin' good time... don't miss it! If you like rock, punk, reggae, ska ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There ... Jones (check out the picture of Ben rocking-->)! Come and see how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  , brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog ... they're good ones. It's a pretty sweet deal. Next week, LSC will present ... year, the first being this past IAP; I described it at the end of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long ... real science. I had forgotten just how awesome chemistry is. And the best ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  how I imagined it: 24 hours straight of hundreds of people huddled ... minutes after it was announced. So, I made a script that would text me an alert as soon as the next round of tickets were announced. A week later it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I wrote it to show people the way that I chose to tackle an electronics problem that was presented to me. It's not something that I learned directly

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... stuff - and how it connects to the work I've done this summer - it's sadly getting long enough to constitute its own blog post, and I have some work to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour-long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... , washers) it can hold. According to Diane Soderholm, the Education Director

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  , but I believe that it does give you a drink-from-the-firehose look at ... 's average starting salaries by major? I was just wondering how many years it ... being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  It's September, school has started, and I know that before long I ... engineering and how many different people it takes to create a complete and ... out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021