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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... that school has resumed. After landing in the Keflavík airport at 4 AM

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really different then. In passions and world views, even music and literature choices ... , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  academics, such as planning and executing a water project in Ethiopia ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... have gone in (early action date was November 1st); the last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... bites of, because there were a lot of us and a lot of donuts still left in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  anything especially special about the moment that you are in, but ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you ... cool 8th grader (because don’t we all feel that way in 8th grade) that is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... awfully ominous edifice: But Back In The Day™, W91 served as a wind tunnel ... and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of Shaena B. '13 and Jen W. (grad student in Biological Engineering). They had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  successful fashion / clothing kickstarter in history, with over $400,000 raised ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in studying the field in college. At a recent admitted student event (*shout out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that ... property to put off writing about last semester even longer in favor of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... waiting in line when term actually starts.) Chatted for quite a while with ... Jessie's "partner-in-crime"), who was back in Boston for the weekend. Got

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... which they stood? Did they even know the country in which he operated ... in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here ... in countercurrent. Redox occurs, there's a microfabricated nanoporous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the ... enjoy a birthday cake that his girlfriend made for him in the kitchen (he

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006