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  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... essence of their respective universities. But now, the MIT Coop had to ... merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  and north of Connecticut and east of New York and west of the Atlantic ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare, despite running out of energy cards sometime around Thursday afternoon

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... of order if you'd like. My friends and I mostly wandered through random

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me, one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... sorts of crazy artifacts in his office and visiting him is always a treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  university-turned-camp. There we met the president of the university, who is ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... an interestingly prominent part of his MIT experience. Knowing that ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts ... unfamiliar home. The coasts, west and east; the mountains—high desert and the ... scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US; she was also hoping to drive to Boston instead of fly. "Hey Mom, wouldn ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... , but still well above our pre-pandemic baseline of ~9,000 EA applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021