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• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite ... 't, attack befriend the nearest hipster and then come back to the end of this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here ... (with frosting) and not eating the carcinogenic unflavored gingerbread :-D. [caption id="attachment_121535" align="aligncenter" width="300"] the stata

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  ) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  on the right hand side already says —  that the 2.s009 product launch ... Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. The final presentations always overflow Kresge Auditorium, and if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  the semester just started, but it hardly feels like school's really in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was ... down enough to send a coherent response and spent the next twenty-four hours compulsively checking every email alert on my phone until I got the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos, but the project has been limping along in the summer haze. It’s looking

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last time I owned a bike, I was nine years old, The last time I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  IN THE HELL?" Giggles floated across the hall from the other summer ... : under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael ... keyboard as well. Jenn, the perpetrator, tells us that there are a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... the magnitude system and optics. I talked more about the class here. One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• 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?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... into it. Did you see that coming? Well, too bad. That will only make the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... ’t think I had much chance at getting into the Symphony Orchestra ... preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me-type things (takin' the pictures, rockin' the radio, fallin' down surprisingly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  vegetables) Garlic and onion for saute Oil (for saute and pan-frying the ... cumin and pepper, and place chicken legs, skin down, on the oil to pan ... , add garlic and onion to the skillet to fry along with the chicken. 6

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T ... derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009