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• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  's bad for my eyes and my back and my body. Coming to MIT gave me an excuse ... my room is nice and warm? The first sign that something was going ... . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  care for a baby, but I think wood slab ownership is the closest I’ve ever ... . "This is insane. Why did we do this?" We bought an oil painting (on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  thunderstorm. One of my favorite classes I’ve taken thus far at MIT is 6.s04 ... You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to ... . Unfortunately, that means that sleep is the shortchanged leg of the trinity. So I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  admissions blogs is to humanize MIT. I hope that this video, in turn, humanizes ... Even though MIT decisions are released on the same day every single ... camera around to show Tim's MIT shirt as everyone runs into a pie

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow ... in the bottle on several occasions. Cambridge is more or less the ... weekend for you: (You can find more posts about MIT in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  the Center for Ultracold Atoms. Here at MIT, everything is interrelated ... every great story in the history of humankind is basically about people ... .Collecting junk @ MIT (it's classier than it sounds, I swear) 7.Intro to Solid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  above the street. The rest, as they say, is history. So, here I am, just ... end of campus, which helps connect MIT to the greater Boston area. Did ... joints, which is part of a larger mall complex called The Garage. After

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  for this lab: "You just graduated from MIT and are traveling around ... with you." Basically, Dr. Hughey, the lab technician for this class, is ... about how awesome she is. She's also very heavily involved in WTP, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT ... slightest hesitation, his friend replied, “MIT”: Zahir wanted to ... treadle-powered irrigation pumps in Sudan, where water scarcity is believed

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  ’t quite seen anything like it at MIT, let alone in my life at all. i do ... of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was ... ) the culture is rich with traditions, stories, and artifacts, and (b) the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices ... wonder: is this who I am? Sometimes an old woman says that life is like a ... would probably never come back to again, if there is one to come back to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Analysis - 18.100B This is one of MIT's intro analysis course. It was ... intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to ... about what is computable in general. What types of problems have solutions

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8 ... I like to think my lack of formal diction is relatable and shows that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  help of my fellow MIT exchangers. Student housing is run by an external ... of the five other MIT exchangers, Wings Y. '19 and Riley D. '19, were also placed at the one I'm in, Culmannstrasse 26. Monthly rent is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book, MIT allows three undergraduate dorms (Random Hall, East Campus, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  warning: the post below is probably the cheesiest thing i have ever written. it is highly unedited and makes me feel both embarrassed and proud ... Instagram in over a year, so my profile is cluttered with content from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  Visits D- Man: Okay, the scheduler is currently out of her office, but I ... hardest part is just picking up the phone for the first time, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  QinQin Yu Freshmen MIT-France Program Internship: Institut N ... blanket and head right over. Thankfully, Grenoble is not at all a tourist ... had so far. This place is beautiful, the people are incredible, and I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... , see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my ... Beaver Spell out "MIT" with your new CPW-friends in front of your

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011