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• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... MIT student's mouth are these: "You know what would be awesome ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... additional $80K). Play Labs is run by Bayview Labs and is being hosted by by MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for students are formative or summative, and 11.129 is more likely to talk about

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... ridiculously quickly, but this is now on the Dot outside the Green Building

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for ... , near the Nyimba province. The travel has been somewhat tiring but it is ... showered since leaving MIT about 3.5 days ago, so I should probably do that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  (aka "Moneyman") has also been updating his Money @ MIT blog and answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out your financial aid forms) should definitely check it out. Mitra is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should ... to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari ... is में (encoded as \u092e\u0947\u0902). THING I WROTE: so how can we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee ... talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan ... , is the humanity: remember, he was making them for his neice, not for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon ... they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  'll experience the MIT lifestyle firsthand. There will be too many things to do at ... you and anyone else will have a similar experience is 1 in a bajillion ... myself at snively [at] mit [dot] edu -- ask-paul [at] mit [dot] edu

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  wotes.mit.edu @WOTES2015 facebook.com/womenoftheeastside So many ... of the beautiful ladies of the east side of MIT's campus and culture ... goes to a student who lives on the east stide of campus, and the fund is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  behind the piece: As part of any MIT capital project there is a commission ... . To me, Madrigal is the perfect metaphor for music at MIT: multi ... Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ="obligatory footnote that deferral is not a rejection! From MIT's EA FAQ, 'We deferred ... throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... , but choosing to apply is to make that decision a possibility.  It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... the room’s furniture arrangement and decorative ambiance. The room is ... amazing program at MIT that has facilitated our efforts. Through the MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  MIT Coop sells MIT stuff. That makes sense, what doesn't make sense is ... to the important stuff. The Coop at MIT is one of my favorite stores. If you ever need anything MIT related, The Coop is the place to go. The

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  to MIT? I think the way that I see it is if you've ever read one of ... kind. If you believe that the only education you will receive at MIT is ... assets MIT has is the people. Coming to MIT I was a pretty shy and reticent

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007