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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to ... the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he played a key role in ... possible now that the human genome is sequenced. The challenge for biology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not only being a whiz with anything electrical (or musical) but also for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... script). In other words, the number of lines that a character has. For

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  current MIT students at the annual Trashion Show. The MIT Trashion Show is a ... blogged about judging Trashion last year, and, for some reason, the ... Venkataraman, who directs global policy initiatives for the Broad Institute and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  minds less often than we think. Last semester I applied for an NSF ... professors at each school to find out which ones I might want to work with, but ... MIT). I did not feel prepared to predict which one I'd end up at

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  hallway! People keep hair bleach and a variety of colors close at hand, and ... . For example, a lot of people I live with really like climbing ... these activities, inviting us to climb at MIT's bouldering wall or go on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  normal. Random Hall, for another year, was back in its full music ... dorm for more than a week before we began to notice that some crucial ... ; Most distressingly: no one could find the Milk.  For those of you who

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first ... one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... rice, and the water, and you hit the switch, and that's it. Look at this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  study. Why don’t they instead look at …” Whenever people ask me big ... “Well there’s evidence on both sides, like X and Y versus Z and W”. But at ... saying non-answers, because I am expected to know the answers, or at least

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... to a close for all you high school students out there. Maybe summer ... other kids at my high school. No one else seemed to really get it, that

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it’s December, and I’m writing this at a healthy 11pm in my favorite late

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... will choose to move to this city and work at this company and dive into ... happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an email can get sent to. so for example, a list like [email protected] can ... personal mailing lists for themselves and their friends, and they send

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students ... 1865. It wasn't in Cambridge at first, it started right across the river ... " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something ... into this course with a lot less coding experience than my peers; at the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  are done. say alyssa and ben were estimating how long it'd take for them ... been busy. despite spending hours cramming for 6.033 computer systems engineering, grading the final for 6.036 introduction to machine learning, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean ... begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a ... Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008