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• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at this new school and you just feel really cool when you're like, "Hey guys

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that ... observations of the cake. We're nerdy and we know it.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... world these days. Mention eating, and people say 'cholesterol.' Mention

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... freshman was lucky, and only had two finals (8.022 Electricity and Magnetism, and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to ... , with many faculty and students invested in finding energy solutions. Superb work underway on many campuses today, from Berkeley and Stanford to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I'm living in Mac ... 'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... embarrassing, and one awesome. I'll let you decide which is which. A Trip to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets ... . People hold up cell phones and stream the concert onto the web. It looks like MIT's mission to use science and technology to improve the world is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact ... , white walls, my roommate and I have taken it upon ourselves to overhaul the room’s furniture arrangement and decorative ambiance. The room is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  The past several days have been exciting. There was Dorm Rush, and ... , Nick '09, Zak '09, and Ross '09. I took some pictures at the East Campus ... it was an official event and we weren't allowed to use the moat around

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  have approved), and so this was somewhat significant. It turned out that ... shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it ... . Biology recitation began, and I kept thinking about blogging and shoes and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  high school. Anyway, the biography was great and from what I understand ... that flipped Watson's lightbulb switch regarding the structure of DNA and ... subjects I recognized from 3.091 and developed her own preparation technique

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with ... thinking it was the perfect essay topic: it talked about sports and service

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... " ("Mind and Hand"). For all you aspiring engineering leaders in the classes ... . And in case you don't believe us... The cabinets on their epic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  , between classes and studying and sleeping and eating and doing things other ... cool things with my time. So I finally cleaned, and more importantly ... , and that's definitely been reflected in some of the music I've been

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  . The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them ... weekends :-) :-) :-) 2.671 - Measurement and Instrumentation Experimental techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  .) and various sensors (accelerometers, capacitive sensing, etc.) to create ... emulated an ambulance siren during a rainy day, and he loved it ... jingling in a calm breeze and wish they’d sound more like plates breaking or

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2014! Go ahead and introduce yourselves.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  pictures of home

  

      a concert / jazz and reggae / late night conversations / pizza / checking checklists / days so warm and restless and impatient / writing and finding poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 30, 2017