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• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an altitude of 250 ft above the ocean; I expect he was buoyed partly by very

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having disappeared off the blogosphere!" And it's true - I am sorry! I don't know what

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... onlookers into the piece. I found myself staring intently at the soft light for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  your first experience test-driving real life. I say test-driving because ... your adventure but I think this 12 step plan will do you some good too ... 've been doing. Brenda '12 (Mexico): "I'm doing optical characterization of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... now or very soon, if you have not yet done so. I recommend that you find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  : What made you want to go to a different school for your masters? I had ... , so I already knew all the professors, attended weekly meetings with the ... speaker seminars, worked on a grad student's thesis as a UROP . . . so I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... Campus/West Campus divide. As I've mentioned before, culturally speaking ... would have likely sought anyway. I have always regarded Bexley as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

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

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  ’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching ... projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  other end. “Well, I couldn’t quite tell you, because I haven’t heard. That’s why I had been hoping—” Mrs. Concord sat down on the bed closest to the ... the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... was valid. I was reminded of visual illusions, which remain compelling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/crrazy_640x475.jpg" width="520" alt="I<3MITMB"></p> < ... eventually got red t-shirts.</p> <p>If I were to tell you about the next 17 years, I would basically be pulling things from <a href="http

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... will be walking the runway today. I stop by to say hi and snap a couple ... , I'm trying to figure out how the very intimidating AV box works

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... also was chocolate, tea, a Russian cake, and some other things, but I ... heart-warming, and I'm happy that students were able to receive them. So

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... I tried to go over that, our fancy email server analytics system ... , unfinished, knitting project was a [annotation note="I'm not actually sure if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  App, The one million “I miss you” through texts, And the longing for that ... with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... be different. I wrote this poem because, after not being able to go

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  initiative. Because I was involved a bit at the beginning, and because I think a lot of our prospective students will be as excited as I am that this is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017