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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  -long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the neighborhood Walgreens. (Notice the torso-sized hole through which the model

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs, professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night ... Sarah '08, who organized the trip. Also, because I wanted to have time ... Harry Potter fame) tried to kill the Great Dome with a curse, leaving a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  which stories resonate the most. This is an introspective journey. Ideally, the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... that you have accumulated over the past four years and may have forgotten

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  them) and visited Machu Picchu (Exhibit C). After all the pictures I’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming. But it was breathtaking, especially in the early morning with mystical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

    livestream of the graduation ceremonies     Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS ... my other classes. After using the search tool online, I managed to ... interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or when I really, really don’t feel like p-setting. At the end there are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  Today, the Class of 2018 graduates from MIT.       ... exceptional. The admitted Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and ... holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW, all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours ... cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... classroom into the hyperactive-kid-infested ball pit at Chuck

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Yesterday, I officially completed the 12-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... definition of spread to account for the whole cohesive project/idea that could ... under the current issue’s theme. Infinite aims to provide the space

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I’ve been doing during the quarantine.   ART I’m most comfortable with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of milestone that keeps appearing, with an increasing sense of urgency. The last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks ... destination address, which at the time was 229 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  over the course of 3 years, and you pretty much have no other wardrobe ... -college life. You also realize that a lot of the shirts you've been hoarding ... something with them instead of just letting them collect dust at the bottom of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the fall of last year, there were three economics majors in the entire class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016