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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  jungles to enthusiasm for a very real internship - far away from home and ... explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran ... ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this ... classes like 2.004 and 2.14 (controls) and 2.671 (experimentation). Luckily ... generator, and an oscilloscope. In other words, there's a high concentration

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... , ooh, I'm super-tired right now, yeah? Not gonna lie." And when I'm super ... back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab whose papers I read for class and whose writing and clean, minimalist

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  . Maybe this difficulty taking criticism isn't real, and just something I ... , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a second thought. I write math handouts and make web apps and stuff, but no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we ... off, sprouted leaves and thorns and eventually grew legs and started ... that statement, it made me cringe, and I decided I don't want that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  The campus -- and, indeed, the world -- is abuzz with excitement for the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. I don't know what will happen this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back ... of my reality and 'y' was how I was feeling. 'x' got turned into 'y' by

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small ... glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i ... this connection i know you're not real, you're not living, you're not ... the fact that it has been that long, and it's way longer compared to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  far. The lectures and case studies are immediately applicable in real ... always get past it and immediately get behind another battle before we even ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  real use except block quote, standard text emphasis, URL, and e-mail link ... on all of this and so I'll begin with what's on the forefront of several peoples' minds: Blogging. Whenever I get a brilliant idea and just

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed ... third grade and took away my job as the only freshman admissions blogger

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... and your talents can be considered with your other talents in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  to in real life, I’m afraid. And I’m confused--I’m not always able to ... Let this blog post (as unrefined, unedited and typo-ridden as it may ... go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications - and since we have so many to read, we often find it more efficient ... Wrangler - which I use to take notes about prospective students I'm reading. (And ... , Delhi for 2 days, and Gujarat for about a week. (GF's family background

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my ... failed test. However, with extra time over the summer and this semester to

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  years after MIT was founded, the Banjo Club and the Glee Club had been ... instrumental orchestra, consisting of first and second violins, violas, 'cellos, flutes, first and second cornets, clarinet, trombone and double bass,” was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025