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• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  killer). This is common for a lot of PE classes and my one complaint. On ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  documentary on the history of the atomic bomb on Valentine’s Day. Either way, we ... night on Friday to finish a conversation with a peer. A rite of passage ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  , which led them on a goose chase through the halls of MIT and down into ... triumphed over evil. I played on team "Lego My Ego," based out of the Simmons ... Discipline of selling one's soul." This opened up a whole new series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  , three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national edition! Also, for those of you wishing for teleportation powers so you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you ... year left, as difficult as that is to believe. It's kind of scary to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  Introduction to computational theories of human cognition. Focus on principles of ... picked this class on the basis of "I have no idea what this is going to ... involve a good amount of writing. I have no problem writing essays, but they

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  good latte macchiato. 3. I will miss the stunning beauty of the sun ... hour super lectures on the biology of DNA and chemistry of petroleum. 7 ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  still be real good time. On Saturday, I went to the Taste of Boston. It ... good at it; I transcribed one line of dictation as "Wen essen Sie?" which ... Laura is gonna be taking care of it for a while. It's way too long of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  most delectable desserts on this side of the country including chocolate ... of you who can't imagine what some of the best desserts on this side of ... , a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  Sci Oly teammates. I thought of fastening the clasp on a friend ... ?” message on a Science Bowl group chat. I thought of covering our math team ... , and eventually that version of identity becomes good enough. I became

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  fans by the way), and the panther was lost in the process of moving in ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... During the Meet the Bloggers party on friday, I sent the following ... when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  from his conniving ways. Finn is a hero that embodies goodness and ... to be the embodiment of goodness and honesty and heroism, is someone ... from fault. But Finn's goodness allows him to grow from the mistakes of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very ... Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is ... when, while working on the first problem set, I had a lightbulb moment on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  . It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and ... alongside their professor, a good deal of the discussion revolved around ... a strength to go on every day. From one of them: “I was a mess when I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  's based on a short story of the same name by E. Annie Proulx. Last January ... confused about the name of 14.41. I have heard it at different times called ... 'm taking it on grades, not pass/fail. Professor: I mean Public Finance) Here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005