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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  in the picture, for a variety of reasons. First, the building in the ... and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  brother is way taller than I am. I spent the first few days of Spring Break ... This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  students of Costa Rica's first science camp. The most hardworking and ... swim. My thoughts of giving started with the first hour of the 17 hour ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  my first leaving poem. and the scent of that oddly specific humidity. i ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  lifetime would not be enough to serve the whole region of Kafa, and worse ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... growing up, but not one of them had ever been beautiful. Like the Aesop

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  of the whole building, inlacing the dining hall, is very sterile. The ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  the world's firsts . This past weekend, MIT dived into yet another: the first intercollegiate Indian classical dance competition in the ... bags underneath their eyes for quite some time now. Saturday (the day of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of ... have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  the world. In the first Burchard lecture of the 2009 Burchard Scholars ... -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at MIT. Every month, Professor Resnick invites a member of the department

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... to go sailing for the first time ever :) MIT Sailing has various days

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  the Henry Ford Museum. But all that's about to change. First of all, I ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... ....well, "ashamed" is the closest word I can think of...of the fact that I've lived

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  all of the letters first class, and I hope nearly everyone will have ... While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... it was due to the first two semesters being virtual. And sophomore year ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  . Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the northeast arrive for the NEACAC conference. In the first session of the ... the annual conference of the New England Association for College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you ... sliver of the moon in your eyes?”. Aw, that’s pretty cute. Maybe it’ll be a ... write it down: When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes? It

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  up a number of firsts. Raised in Baltimore by a single mother who worked as a secretary and a waitress, Moore was the first in her family to ... . Bush nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007