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• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community ... the best work required drawing on the full range of human experience and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  the downs. I am glad I got to be a blogger over the last two years, and ... Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo1jMdwIVoQ You can read the transcript

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  river and forget the intensity that can be MIT is key to finding balance ... bus during the day on Sunday and I need to go to campus and it is ... company to watch a movie that person can be found just by walking into the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... moment. A “normal” person would just respond with a number and be done

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... you sit or stand with both feet on the ground and remind yourself where ... I can try my best to be strong and resilient to situations, but at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered ... one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... found out that I was going to be lighting the candles on one of their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  house us in a place where we can be inspired and taught By one another ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... , bone-colored scrawlings on the classrooms’ many walls. Still you see us

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  a rain of pastries. Or the secret to being good at and/or actually ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , and finally hopped on an Uber to the airport with my parents. [caption ... .03[/annotation] reading quiz that was due in the time I would be on the plane. But ... on my flight to Moscow were also transferring and having the same

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  and design.) We have the arts here. We write here. We can even major in ... events that all happen to be occuring at the same time, usually not ... that. Meet her if you can. Everyone should. You may be thinking, "But

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... -down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing ... better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the ... Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... , and stroll down the stairs and ask myself the second big question for

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  got tired and decided to take two breaks each climb – first on the 7th floor and again on the 13th floor. On the graph, there are several climbs ... , Antonio's heart rate on climbs 10 and 20 shows a smoother increase than the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  on the plan -- if you ship it to the roommate, the roommate can be on ... delivery on the website, but I'm sure if you call the phone number, they'd be ... (and tastes) kind of assembly-line.) To be honest, just looking at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and ... she spent the weekend being an MIT mommy and telling you prefrosh and ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  studying, I'm sitting on The Angela Monster's bed with May and Liz '11 and ... *A*S*H?) 9. Be productive and start working on more applications. (You probably ... life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  can use the Disqus login or comment as an anonymous guest. Just don't be ... the odometer, finally showing its age, and throwing some bugs that are ... + 1 blog posts, and avoid throwing our laptops collectively into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  the festivities tonight: 6:30 meet on kresge oval for a picnic 7:00 the first secret is revealed So over the course of the day on Monday, a ... room. It was definitely a fun night, and it will probably be my only

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ’ve taken on personal significance. Live and learn. Sift through all the white ... , interests, and hobbies. It’s certainly one of the last times you’ll be able to ... and accepted the job (contingent on a successful stage, or trial day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  classes can be Harvard classes, and you must be a full-time MIT student to ... enjoy the mixed experience. But I can honestly say, and I think Nina will ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008