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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing ... forward to MIT circa 2003. Bryan arrives on campus. I still danced around ... choices. Eventually I settled on Mechanical Engineering, and for me that

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... for our feedback on the ride (with the promise of free candy!) and I ... summer internship working on this game. Based on the thirty minutes I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  students) and exams officially start on Friday and continue until Thursday ... fun before the real work kicks in? Here's some stuff going on around campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  ? You should write something about that. So on a day where [annotation ... ] Today’s Opportunities? I skimmed through it and what caught my eye was ... -40 hours per week. But getting a glimpse of the 360 Photography Class on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  pronoun stickers on their nametags, sitting in help desk and trying to let ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  about the process if that helps. Maybe I will hold off on tackling this ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... , answer questions and just generally be helpful. One of the ECs, Gregg

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  activism on campus, and if nothing more, has helped me formulate ideas on ... series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on ... semester started, attended some pretty cool lectures on x-ray astronomy (we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  . On the lab front, this week I started writing a paper about the project ... note the differences between our protocols. I'll be the first author on this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  lives. We sat on a dock at night and watched the sparse lights ripple in ... , left by accident. I live on the fifth floor in EC, where there's no ... I'm writing this blog sitting on an Amtrak train speeding from Boston

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  the name because i don't really live here anymore) on the north coast. i ... fiction. i currently have pink post-it notes stuck inside three books on my living room table -- pachinko, hitchhiker's, and infinite jest -- and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... with their lives. Inspired by their successes, we then decided to form an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... Fellowship, a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Kenneth ... economist in the nation aged 40 and under.  Dr. Gruber's research focuses on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  /department are you psyched about" essay on a less common major will help your ... several components -- the gel, the membrane, the electrodes on the gel box ... little skittish around them. On this particular day, one of the mice had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  =" LESSSS GOOO RED TEAM!!!!!!!!!1!11!"]Red Sox Tickets.[/annotation] Today, on ... just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the ... lessons about the police on campus and resources available, and random

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  leave on the paper, I make with intention because I only have time for so many. Humans are a living, breathing sack of flesh with so many different ... into marks on a paper is why most models are nude and why these sessions

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  April, no rehearsal on Presidents’ Day, etc. – until suddenly: “There will also be no rehearsal on Wednesday, February 19. There will be a ... almost 2 million subscribers on YouTube and TikTok. Yo-Yo is one of, if

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  should I begin on the airplane?  [annotation note="Spoiler Alert: It's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn ... tangible representation of how I go about living. How? Let's go back to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew ... with friends I hadn’t seen for months and pig out on foods I had been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  . For somebody who doesn't live on campus, like you prefrosh, it's very ... you the most good. Interpretations of each can be found on a page of ... to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009