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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of sensors! an anemometer, thermal ... ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... . I have complete autonomy over my living space and habits, down to the little things like how my room smells. My definition of good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we ... how to edit video, lessons specifically on how to best utilize a tablet ... ME BE ARTSY/WORK ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS WHILE ENJOYING MYSELF. To be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... boxes bought from La Verdes. An hour before my flight was supposed to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... extremely stir-crazy kids have learned to scale the fence between our yards so ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... uncle: "Joonho, how was summer vacation?" "It was fun, I did research at MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... circuit to model public power supply using lightbulbs, hand ... also had the opportunities to connect with the English department. We had

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  playing it this year and you have no idea how to play it! Welp What have ... still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the images was captioned "ThinkGeek to the rescue:" ThinkGeek provides Pluto

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... . Unfortunately, I woke up around 1 PM anyway and was about to go back to sleep when

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .631- Systems Visualization: In this class, we're learning about how to ... learning about how to make good visual designs (: I'll be sure to post my ... bridges. In this class, we look at structures in equilibrium and learn how

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete examples, I went to the Facebook and looked at the class schedules of some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  minutes.   Let the soup cool enough that it is safe to handle. Food process ... cream. Stir the soup, bring it back to a boil, and season to taste

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  immediately came to mind. the next step was figuring out how to get permission ... ceiling. the development process was uncertain; Karyn had no idea how to put together scaffolding or how to suspend 80 pound tanks, whether she

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023