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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by Shakespeare "Autumn ... Coming" by W.B Yeats "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  the American South, with the help of country music. The first forms of ... ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  of the bears. I'll be brief, for the sake of wit. First, Ling '07 ... DID YOU KNOW? This World Cup was the first time that a country qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... students without leaving my chair. i attended the first week of classes, and ... first floor of east campus, i will be getting it from the student center

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Hello MIT Class of 2013! Here are some things that admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... applied for the job and after a couple of phone interviews and some ... show up (we were roommates). Items of note in the hotel room include a tv

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  during freshman orientation or during the first few days of classes." jtron ... all of your options. Most freshman in their first term take a math class ... the MIT Museum. Not at MIT, you could take a tour of Fenway Park, walk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from ... charcoal from; I had no answer. Turns out that the UA was delivering a bit of ... hopped out of the truck, hollaring directions to a bunch of other students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political ... Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  . Walking to the other side of the first floor, we pass by several common ... 'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note="The ... things you're doing, and past the expectations of what you should be doing ... "]what YC does.[/annotation] You feel trapped in the bubble of it all though

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... definitely not the whole picture. All of that said, the Big 5 test, unlike ... thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  for a training/conference weekend. It was our first 3-day weekend of the ... ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not ... couldn’t be closer to the truth. As I packed up most of my clothes as the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022