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• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very PNR-core). But! This Thanksgiving, most of us are on campus, so we

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  land on earth is now estimated to be used for livestock and feed ... Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  prototyping. This is what I worked on over the summer (as much of it as I ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  work. On days when we all go to our office in Menlo Park, which is most days of the week, we wake up at around 7 or 8 or 9, depending on what ... of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  to me and i learn better from making these sorts of mistakes. with ... people in the boston area. this is part of a conscious effort to take a ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  center (which is basically a couple shopping centers) to see what I could ... gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost ... was no sign of entry on windows or doors, although the tour guides ... , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  acceptances to not be revoked, or is it more of a 'play it by ear' situation ... requirements. But AP seems to be the American standard. Which one is preferable by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  everyday, which is definitely preferable to a long walk or commute. From the ... , or to easily be able to make contributions of my own. The culture at ... to mention the office is dog-friendly, so there’s never any shortage of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is ... + hours of time on nothing, which is what my high school self certainly ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... . There are all sorts of student life here, and everybody is free to pursue

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  : "Who is your favorite celebrity? Who is on the cover of the stack of ... is born. And despite the business buzzwords (integrated marketing to ... to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  common solvent, which those of you who have worked in labs or even used ... weeks: the end of our first 8-week ICE course. ICE, or Integrated ... , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... aspects of the artwork which are not tied to those goals. for instance ... skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  , and it will get better," which was, as it turns out, what I needed to ... —that is theoretically easy to learn. But at the end of the day, I’m less ... to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  it is on the forefront of the ed tech movement. As early as 2001, at ... for my classes is in video form, which is difficult to review before ... L mentors, they were able to solve an edX issue on the very first day of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a ... all of this, Gedion is incredibly creative and curious. Which brings us ... ; Warwara is a 9-hour bus ride and 4-hour hike (on foot or by horse) from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... to go to grad school. I started gaining weight, which was kind of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  might simply chalk it up to MIT being awesome (which it is), but they ... I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years.  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  of them: one is people and another is creative work, like art or ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... ever exercising the authority to decide on which future it shall be spent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023