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• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  -expensive restaurant engineered for tourists. It was filled with Americans and played CNN ... loud, very grand church bells, then couldn't find anything for breakfast ... just over 15,700 ft (~4.8 km). Feyi joined us for the cable car ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  ) light bulb; 12 to play with the iPad (sigh), a few hundred for the fanfare ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... and acetominophen. I bothered my friend Sarah W. '16 for help wrapping ... since I could barely walk. So I waited for the pain-killers to set in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I ... ",[/annotation] but for the purposes of this blog, I will not be worrying about this ... . An infinitesimal part of. As it turns out, for some reason, this is a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... for ending the evolving pandemic, an Institute-wide webinar on Thursday ... learning algorithms developed for language to predict SARS-CoV-2 mutation and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  . It's one of my favorite things ever. For more, watch the below MITnews ... . Bonus! While digging through old photos for this blog post, I found completely unrelated footage from one morning last October of me playing with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  'm almost there. I actually think I'll be ready for Monday *crosses fingers ... . Step 2, get really excited and head back inside for my camera. Step 3 ... , so I've got two more pictures for you, one from farther away and then

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  for 3 hours, demolishing half a biology problem set, watching classic ... bed with a dozen other people, carrying part of my couch upstairs for no apparent reason, starting to go out for pizza with friends before remembering

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  useful for my internship. I know I haven't explained much about my project ... /proyectos/friki-apps/wii-servo-linux/wii-servo.html (As it turns out, "friki" is the Spanish slang word for what we would ... written for this project. The best part? They're written in Python, the only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol ... last two shows nearly started a war for control of the Conner 2 floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... stuff you need to go dig through all the blogs for it. The new site will

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  candy, and playing puzzles when clouds obscure the view -- sounds like ... systems are found in binary star systems, so they looked for eclipsing ... Emily Levesque for more information) that is a great introduction. Shaye

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  , lightsabers, trap doors, and moving AT-AT legs, beyond "Don't Cry For Me ... the end of "One Play More" and the perfect recreation of Jerome Robbins ... good that I'm actually, for the first time, going to include spoiler

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  already work for Admissions, so I wasn't subjected to such an interview. I ... ) Lex lives in a house called "Malkovich." Coming up with a name for a ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  undergrad for several reasons (to make money, to avoid burnout, to get more ... memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for ... . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... contributes for a covenant that goes deeper than just living there

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Sciences"]HASS[/annotation] reading. It's good for you. Take a class that ... [/annotation] for at least one semester. Find something fun to do with your extra time. Take a class without having the prereqs for it. Drop a class 11 weeks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters ... students and talks about neurotransmitters and drugs for 90 minutes. He does ... I was a TA for a neuroscience class this summer at nerd camp? With

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009