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• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with ... Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "...Any attempt by a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... still, from the standpoint of an individual class, the material is ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I ... in the Z Center, but another thing to run in a nice shirt inside of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  first marathon of line-waiting occurred at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. We ... . Rome First of all, I want to advertise the Roma Inn hostel. It costs 20 ... old. Our first stop was the Colosseum. Half a bottle of sunscreen, 12

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... the end of it. I’d spent the last two weeks either rehearsing for six ... ) homework. You know, being a real person and that sort of thing. But as the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure ... ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... piece of art that changes every time you look at it. I wonder about the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  ; And for those of you in FRC -- have fun with Stronghold! It's the first ... you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the 2016 FIRST Robotics FRC game at the annual kickoff event. I've blogged

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  the whole strange controversial concept of “designer babies” and the ... beautiful posts about the current feelings of black people throughout the ... couldn’t. I began thinking about the type of things that you don't think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  lot of trouble getting through. It really looked like the whole town ... ... Explosions, yay! And the bonfire, of course. Tea, coffee, and chips ... Just finished reading Paul's entry about the Guy Fawkes hacks at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  bloggers. Read all of the headers at the top of the page. Read Newsweek ... The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... -D humanities class, so lots of people take it, course 9 or not. In the student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... cranny, and of course, friendship and love and community. But!!  The ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  first half of the semester was structured along the history of chemistry ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  100-km loop around the Kerry Road on the first Sunday of July, when ... ’ll get some work done tonight. But first I want to record the highlights of ... with beds below $70. Tomorrow I'll hike as much of the Way as I can, then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Tube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  intricate ways throughout the design. I first learned about this type of ... the things we find beautiful—our very perception of beauty, actually ... one of my favorite things I didn’t realize were math: paper art. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at ... outside. We go to a park at the end of the week and we have the whole place ... In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  that go the other way. First of all, your first semester is Pass ... I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007