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• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  ? They asked after reading (obvious, to me) descriptions of why science ... visual ways to get across the energy and fun of doing science gave me yet a ... and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... about MIT, life, the universe, and other super specific things, like grass ... of MIT's campus for people who want to know what it's like to be at MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  included when I was applying. This didn't paint a full picture of the school ... correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  applied research to transition promising results toward practical products useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on soldier protection and survivability needs, and the relevancy of research
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I keep telling myself. "How hard can it be?" But some part of myself still ... interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2 ... Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and ... of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... especially of the men of East Campus in scoring some Victoria's Secret MIT Pink ... . Looking at their list of currently sponsored schools, I don't think they

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... people walked out of the front doors that night as he approached the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay ... into the room with a cheery "hello!", pulling on a pair of gloves. He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of ... at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... that January 1 is the submission deadline for students applying for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of ... cherishes the identities built into the squares and streets of Boston, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci ... , still a computer science major, I took four computer science classes, none

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006