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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  Yesterday, I finished my UROP. I cleaned up my bench, double-checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a quick exit interview with my…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I’ve spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom’s house in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s been great, and I might even have caught up on all the…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  months, but you know how the calls have been going. And dad, well, is still

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... first drawn to MIT by Ed Pincus and Richard Leacock, whose Film section ... negative film, who eventually came to MIT to research color video. Meanwhile

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We love Maangchi's YouTube channel! She is really cute and funny, and ... tasted just like vegetables with rice and soy sauce, which is not bad by ... with turkey or chicken. Another alteration we made to the recipe is the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... . Closer! EVEN CLOSER! Perfect. This little piece of the rock is made ... our rocks, if they both point in one direction, then the door is open

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  acknowledge it or not, you subconsciously know that this year is going to be ... ’t high enough. That your personality is not charming enough. That your ... ’s okay to just sit, surrounded by your emotions. Because, that is also an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  TelefériQo is a steep cable car that travels up Volcán (volcano) Pichincha. Quito itself is at just under 10,000 ft (3 km) above sea level, and the ... lookout point, which is at 13,500 feet (~4 km). From here, people with large

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  that will differentiate you is how hard you work." I left feeling ... Toscanini's, where the ice cream is tasty and the electrical outlets are in ... to myself. There's endless work to do here, but the best work is done

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to ... facility is spacious and unassuming (not to mention home to a small archive ... , and exams together. So I have a feeling that the coming semester is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... advised that 9.12 is a limited enrollment class and the class was full on 7 ... am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you." This is majorly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... . Problem: I need to know who Robert Hawkins really is.     ... think Greg House is one of the best characters in the history of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  gibberish, but it's still impressive-looking. Below is a non ... , is much more colorful. This Stata output is from my individual paper

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  . This is what he played. "Now you can never forget what a descending 5ths ... shift tonight and noticed that there is a large, person-sized indentation ... thing I do know is that it was not because somebody was being thrown in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  tax theory/reform. memorable quotation: "Assume everyone's life is worth ... our choice between two topics. #1 is a hedonic analysis of laptop ... the demand for an individual trait. #2 is an event study of gulf

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  after you solve the puzzle. Flavor Text: Lost in the jungle, Joe is ... 9 8 2 1 4 5 3 6 4 7 5 Discussion: This is just a map, can't do too ... get 0807508527 which is the length of the ISBN number for this book, The

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  , durante el primer trimestre de primer año en el MIT, solamente te evalúan ... varios motivos. Las clases del MIT son más exigentes que las de la ... bajas de sus vidas en el primer trimestre del MIT. El sistema incentiva

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my ... . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020