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• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  is beautiful stuff, magnetic flux tubes and reconnection and turbulence ... resources that MIT promised, I was excited to start doing “real work”, and the ... one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  5 am. As an MIT student who regularly stays up to that time, this is ... other graduate. The fraternity bond is a bond for life. And the MIT family ... mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  ). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an ... MyMIT? What are you waiting for?). Even if you don't receive an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the things they pushed aside for psets before.…

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8 ... pound. I'm sure CMS.100 is a worthwhile class, but grapes at 88 cents ... of 2013 during orientation. Every year, MIT's orientation coordinators

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super ... 's why Wikipedia was invented. I think Wikipedia is the ideal task for ... , I have heard that all history teaching is influenced by where you grow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Entries are judged by the Floor Faculty Fellows, MIT Staff, MIT Housemasters ... of the awesome things about this implement is that it gives you one ... not win apple sculpture, hard as it is to believe, because it was up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick ’17 sung to the tune of “Summertime” by Bon Jovi press play, then scroll down and sing the new lyrics     ♫Feels something like…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless ... behind thick skin and sharp thorns. Tucson is full of small businesses ... about pulling up to the shiftiest tattoo parlor there is, the kind with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... . another reason is, you know.... *vaguely waves hands* everything. the ... , the police brutality. another reason is much more tangential: just a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an annual Robotics challenge ... eighth grade science teacher - who I honestly believe is the reason I am now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done ... is a lot better now, and I went out into the city just on my own a lot ... Alchemist sculpture that sits in front of the student center on MIT's campus

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... way to that conclusion. And it is. But I think it feels so unintuitive ... state of mind—my average mood is more positive, the fluctuations have felt

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . (One of the many luxuries of IAP is to be able to spend hours just ... day, what had succeeded and what had failed. This blog is an abridged ... -session wheelthrowing class with MIT Arts Studios. So I knew enough to know that throwing

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  thing and don’t believe the distinction is important, but pick whichever ... experience is that most problems are not so simple to resolve and most ... -fashioned planning and scheduling, a lot of b2b software is painful to use and requires

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  want to see my dad, which might be difficult given the average mit ... shoulder the responsibility of taking care of myself is just another marker ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  Second semester is just two weeks old, and I've already decided that ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... nobody. Instead we're using 22 M formic acid, which is, needless to say ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  Using Glass Pumpkins MIT is famous for its so-called “great glass pumpkin ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... “vanilla” and “orange”! But alas, glass frit is nothing more than eye candy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022