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• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  of MIT applies to our civic education as well:   We also believe that ... millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... parents, and my mother handed me a package of peanut M&Ms and an

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your child survive the process of choosing the right college for him/her. As you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of science in an empty wing of Boston Logan airport around 10 pm. Odd ... experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Science) and live on Conner 4 of Burton-Conner. Basically, I've got a run-of ... unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... Fest, organized by Madhouse Motors every spring. I’d heard of it from [annotation note = "residents of Random Hall, the soon-to-be last bastion of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  as excited about the start of Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Yet, after ... of our admitted students and those parents who are on campus as well ... attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... imagine that you're walking toward that venue, with the intention of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... friends, but everything was worth it; Mocha Show was one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I cannot WAIT for the next one. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La ... our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005