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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop? Well, it’s this wonderful machine…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I’m a good judge of time, and I like to think that I am, all y’all prefrosh are starting your summer internships and getting excited to…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college career. It didn’t seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  This weekend, as I was reading the Sunday Globe magazine like I usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove cranking  (even when it’s…

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students…

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its temporary effect on taste. The berry’s miraculin…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  paved my comfortable life in college-never too far from home, so that if I ... Mexican food or hang out with my siblings. Life was good, but I was boxed in

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It’s important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  sequence (a la Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life) set to Wagner

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

    Most of my entries center around things I’ve learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  2:47 am, better known 26:47. Three hours and 13 minutes before the day rolls over, by Random Hall Standard Time. Destiny, the southern half of the first floor of Random…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  I saw this article about MIT folks Jessica Rosenkrantz ’05 and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg on TechNewsDaily recently and thought it was pretty neat… Nervous Systems jewelry and accessories began with a…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  of certain memories. So far, I’ve lived half of my life in China and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  : An Android/arduino hug robot: An animatronic, life-size giraffe: And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  this carpet sporting a bright “Go Longhorns” shade of orange, and a life

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  time as I am right getting over the fact that I spent an hour of my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  vitality and very special way of life, and many of us are hoping to come back

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... decision you were granted will define the rest of your life. If you got in, I ... your life. It will be the most stressful but the most amazing if you take

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  Having a brother who’s eleven years younger than you has its perks: 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it (“I was babysitting!”) 2. You…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff actually goes on at MIT, and…

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010