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• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  , sailing, and, of course, UROP. Pat Antaki isn't the first MIT alum to go to ... compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  that instead of being so proud to be the first person to comment, you ... . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  minutes ago and writing the first 2 lines of this entry, I remembered another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to ... going insane. Unfortunately, one of the "fun" items has the description

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , the other facing the sunlight. Nearly twelve uninterrupted weeks of

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  that are designed to give you a first hand view of the college by having ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... going through the mountains of mail that various schools have been so

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I ... note the differences between our protocols. I'll be the first author on this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... middle of all that awesomeness is the awesomeness that is Ben Folds on ... , you know, Ben Folds only got the thumbs up from 70% of the student

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no ... . Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... finished with the vast majority of your college applications within the next

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  , during a pandemic, during the first week of school? Surely it could not ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  whatever. In the first half of the course, each lovely transformation and ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my ... classes. The first ten weeks or so straddled a slender line between

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  introduce myself: Name? Theo. Year? First-Year/Frosh/The Young One ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  's show choir my junior year. I was captain of the largest color guard in the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So I came to MIT and joined the cheerleading squad, of course. I came

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... comics. Spoiler alert: I didn’t win. Probably why the title of this blog is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story ... say. First, as many of you know, Marilee has built her career around ... anxiety. Many are understandably concerned that the momentum of this mission

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they ... from the dome." BUT it is not any of these things. No, MIT hasn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston ... problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to ... my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019