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• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  't know how we pulled it off. This is what Crystle's and my room looked ... painter and it wasn't going well - and the more I realized that it was going ... to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  how to switch sections from afternoons to evenings because it conflicted ... syrup. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's amazing. Hot ... I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... sort of conflicted about whether or not I should do it anyway, because I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we know what we ... in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  background of this issue or how it's currently being solved, but this ... it's accurately predicting how the basis of most microbiology folds and ... It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... possibilities. I am from radios blaring and pop music, And no, it is not too ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  of us had any idea of how we would really accomplish it. We could ... ’t threaten your own chance of success, they enhance it. In many cases, what ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... front of me, and I'm going to hit it.     I tried to brake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... like thinking about it. speaking of my classes, i haven't talked about ... researching what different programming language implementations do. but when it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  21E. It may happen slowly, where semester after semester I take a few ... application. Or it may happen all at once, after this summer, when I decide to ... many projects to finish. My shelf feels like it will never be completed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of robots that actually did quite well in the competition! It's been a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  knowing how to use it. I'm hoping my internship woes quiet soon. They flare ... closest things I had to a brother and a sister. It was really nice to be ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  dorm and learned how fun it was to have friends living down the hall ... . It's true that I missed my family sometimes and took some stressful ... missing out on everything in high school. But overall it was a really great

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a little window to campus and show you how we here deal with stress. I didn ... , they all pressed submit, and it was over. Exhale. At 5:10pm, I scurried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... things, what works, why it works, and how we can make things better. There ... Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... subsequent months are spent on engineering and building. It's an amazing ... final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s ... ’t quite manage to erase. Summer really cannot come soon enough. It is coming, though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  East Campus party had already passed. It was definitely the last time that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time that I saw some people, whether I realized it or not. I'm very attached

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  this post as eloquently as it could be, but the story below has been ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and then I didn’t give it any more thought until around Thanksgiving of that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... 'm assuming that it must have a relatively simple answer and that as a professor ... temperature it is equally "frozen" whether or not it was heated and quenched to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005